Mayor Brandon Johnson selects Marlene Hopkins as interim buildings head. She oversaw the 2020 Crawford plant implosion that covered neighborhood in dust and debris.
The Crawford Coal Plant, where a smokestack was demolished, is seen from the Little Village neighborhood on April 12, 2020. As Mayor Brandon Johnson continues to get rid of Lightfoot administration appointees at City Hall, he’s selected as interim head of the Chicago’s Department of Buildings a city official who was found negligent for her role in the botched 2020 implosion of a massive smokestack in Little Village that caused dust and debris to cover much of the neighborhood.
The mismanaged implosion caused a massive dust cloud to envelope the Little Village neighborhood, drawing criticism from elected officials and outcries from residents, raising accusations of environmental racism. The company that carried out the ill-dated demolition, Northbrook-based Hilco Redevelopment Partners, is set toto residents whose health and property was affected that day. The settlement was approved last month by a federal court.
Hopkins, a longtime city bureaucrat who had worked for almost 15 years in the role at the time, was made first deputy commissioner seven months after the demolition under Lightfoot, before the inspector general’s report was written.
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