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More lawsuits filed against East Chicago over lead and arsenic contamination

By Nick Janzen, IPB News | Published on in Uncategorized

Hundreds of residents in East Chicago are taking steps to open another lawsuit over lead and arsenic contamination.  As Indiana Public Broadcasting’s Nick Janzen reports, they say city and state officials knew about the pollution as far back as 1972, when their West Calumet Housing Complex was built.