🚨Today, @LVEJO is taking over the ICJC social media accounts! Since 1994, we’ve organized members of the Little Village community to advocate for environmental justice. We’re a proud member of the ICJC, & today we’re taking over their social media to share some devastating news. 
For more than a generation, our community has suffered from pollution rising out of the Crawford Coal Plant, which was finally shut down in 2012. But just this past weekend, the nearly 100-year old smokestack was demolished, blanketing our community in toxic dust.
The company in charge of the demolishing, Hilco, provided almost no notice to the surrounding community and refused to use basic dust-mitigation measures that could have prevented this from happening.
It was a disaster that could impact the health of affected families for decades, and damage the respiratory systems of people at the height of the COVID-19 crisis.
We need answers. More than 15,000 people have signed our petition demanding transparency and accountability. Please see our full list of demands and add your name: change.org/p/state-of-ill…
To get the latest updates on this issue, please follow us on Facebook at facebook.com/lvejo2020 and on Twitter @LVEJO. Thank you for standing with the Little Village community.
