Chicago's activist history extends for miles and looms large. Yet, matters concerning flue-lined plants and factories, risky chemical and particulates exposure, water pollution from sporting organizations, to name a few, are also a part of that history. Chicago residents' knowledge of their role in the environment seems to exist, and their effort to pursue practices and solutions to bring about changes in their own exposure to environmental hazards remains strong. It may even have gotten stronger.
Past Struggles Link Corrective Justice
But environmental activism in Chicago wasn't always how it exists today. There was more of a personal affect associated with pollution. The concept of environmental racism was quantum in that it determined the actions, experiences and outcomes associated with what amount of change would occur and how different that change would be.
In minority and low-income communities, that change could happen quickly or slowly, but the latter seemed to be the norm. Familiar corollaries abounded - disproportion, segregation, targeting and citing, blackmailing, "lack of "or inadequacy and inequality. There was some curtailment of these blights on the targeted populace, but in defense, jurisprudence didn't always side with the plaintiff.
