Little Village residents: Settlements for botched smokestack implosion were also botched
CHICAGO -- Many residents of the Little Village neighborhood were supposed to get settlement checks from a lawsuit over a botched coal power plant smokestack demolition—but it isn't going as planned.So the residents reached out to CBS News Chicago for help. The smokestack at the shuttered Crawford power plant at 35th and Pulaski was imploded on April 11, 2020—at the early height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The surrounding neighborhood was left coated in a massive cloud of dust and debris.
'I resealed it, sent it all back—and I haven't heard nothing.'Rice is not alone. Juana Espinoza, a neighbor and relative of Rice's, also got three checks. None of the people whose names were on the checks live in her home where she has been for 22 years.What's more, Espinoza did not even sign up to be part of the settlement.Espinoza threw the checks away. Meanwhile, Rice went straight to Hilco.
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