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City Bureau Special Issue

Living With Lead

How Generations of Chicagoans Carry the Weight of a Toxin Hiding in Plain Sight

 

Reporting by: Timna Axel, Darryl Holliday, Enrique Perez and Nissa Rhee in partnership with the South Side Weekly. Special thanks to USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism and the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

Text the word LEAD to 312-697-1791 to get lead test data for your zip code.

Explore our "Living With Lead" Series below:

  • Intro (Events, Photos, Maps & More)
  • Where it starts
  • Where We Live & Play
  • Where We Learn
  • Where we go from here