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The former Crawford Coal Plant, where a smokestack was demolished, is shown from the Little Village neighborhood on April 12, 2020. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)

The inspector general’s office completed a report on the the botched Hilco smokestack demolition in Little Village in September 2021, but Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration refused calls from the community, a City Council resolution and then-Inspector General Joe Ferguson to make the report public. The report was publicized recently and Little Village residents are demanding the city take action.

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