Juanita Irizarry, 52, executive director of Friends of the Parks, talks Feb. 25, 2021, about the Army Corps of Engineers’ plan to expand a polluted dump, called the Confined Disposal Facility, at the confluence of Lake Michigan and the Calumet River adjacent to Calumet Park. (Erin Hooley)
Fiercely proud of their home, residents of the Southeast Side — long a toxic dumping ground — are rising up against polluters
