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Black and Brown communities in Illinois are up to 200% more likely to live near a distribution warehouse than the overall statewide population, according to a new report from the Environmental Defense Fund on the state’s “warehouse boom,” most of which is clustered in the greater Chicago area.
The report, released Wednesday, said the state doesn’t know enough about the stream of truck traffic, the pollutants those trucks spew or even who operates the warehouses to get a handle on the health and environmental impacts.
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