Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Toxic Tour of Northwest Indiana

Photography by Lloyd DeGrane. Text by Kari Lydersen.

by Kari Lydersen



In a modest field house in Chicago's Calumet Park, the James P. Fitzgibbons Memorial Museum showcases faded photos and newspaper clippings of South Chicago's industrial glory days: steel mill picnics, brass bands, and bloody strikes. For Chicago these are only memories; the city's south-side steel mills and affiliated industries were long ago shuttered and dismantled.…

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Source: http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/toxic-tour-of-northwest-indiana/Content?oid=3189482

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