Natural Resources Defense Council Metal crunches and shrieks at the General Iron Industries facility along the Chicago River’s North Branch near Lincoln Park. Here, an auto shredder flattens cars, appliances, rebar, and beams as water sprays down in an attempt to keep the resulting dust from blowing away. A potent stench fills the air.
Chicago Tribune Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration and a group of aldermen vigorously defended a clout-heavy scrap yard on Tuesday, brushing aside neighbors who shared stories about noxious pollution and loud noises from one of the last industrial operations in a fast-gentrifying corridor along the North Branch of the Chicago River. One of the neighborhood’s
WTTW's Chicago Tonight Minutes before the scheduled start of a press conference to protest the move of a Lincoln Park scrap metal shredder to the Southeast Side, a truck owned by the company rolled by and sprayed water toward the feet of protesters standing on the edge of a sidewalk outside the facility. For
WBBM 780 AM /105.9 FM On the corner of Clifton and Kingsbury, along the North Branch of the Chicago River, sits the 110-year-old General Iron Industries scrap yard. The controversial scrap shredder has been cited with multiple violations of the Clean Air Act as recently as last week. Inspectors found the scrap yard had failed
Chicago Tribune Federal authorities cracked down Friday on a controversial scrap shredder along the North Branch of the Chicago River, the latest in a series of legal actions prompted by complaints about clouds of metallic pollution drifting into the Bucktown and Lincoln Park neighborhoods. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s regional office in Chicago cited
Chicago Tribune A scrap metal shredder with a long history of pollution problems is moving from wealthy, largely white Lincoln Park to a low-income, predominantly Latino neighborhood that already is heavily burdened by toxic waste and other environmental maladies. General Iron Industries announced last week that it has brokered a deal to shutter its
Chicago Tribune One of the last industrial facilities in the fast-gentrifying Clybourn Corridor looks more like a set from "Mad Max" than the glittering, tech-friendly utopia portrayed in videos promoting Chicago for Amazon's second headquarters. Nearly every day, claw-mounted cranes at the General Iron Industries scrap yard feed flattened cars, twisted rebar and used appliances
DNA Info General Iron — a long-running metal scrap yard that is facing growing backlashfrom community leaders, including local aldermen — was shut down by the city this week. The metal scrap yard and wholesaler, 1909 N. Clifton Ave., is closed after failing a building inspection Monday, according to city records. The city's department of buildings found a total of 28 violations, ranging
Our Urban Times Plumes of black smoke rose from flames in large fire at General Iron scrap yard at Marcey and Cortland, where a hazmat level 1 fire is expected to burn for hours, according to a Chicago Fire Department (CFD) spokesperson. The fire that began at approximately 9 a.m. this morning, Sunday, has
ABC 7 Chicago Officials are investigating the cause of a fire at a recycling plant on the city's North Side that required level 1 HAZMAT response. he blaze broke out in a stack of scraps Sunday morning at General Iron Industries, located in the 1900-block of N. Clifton, officials said. No injuries have been
