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Pilsen Area Soil Site
Environmental Protection Agency is asking owners of over 100 properties in a portion of the Pilsen neighborhood for permission to take samples in their yards and gardens for lead-contaminated soil.
The specific residential area -- referred to as Operable Unit 2 -- is bounded by 18th Place to the north, an alley halfway between Allport Street and Racine Avenue to the east, 21st Street to the south, and Loomis Street to the west. There are about 178 residential properties in this 25-acre OU2 site. About 121 of the properties have non-permanent covers in their yards such as bare soil, grass or gravel and are the focus of EPA's outreach.
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Paul Roush of the EPA explains to a town hall meeting in Spanish and in English how investigators identified the historic site of the original McCormick Reaper Works, later International Harvester, as the source of lead contamination in the soil around the Pilsen neighborhood on the west side of Chicago.

McCormick Works of International Harvester Co., c.1910
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~Environmental Protection Agency is asking owners of over 100 properties in a portion of the Pilsen neighborhood for permission to take samples in their yards and gardens for lead-contaminated soil.
~EPA has been investigating lead contamination in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood since 2011, when it became involved with a cleanup at the former Loewenthal Smelter. Residents requested additional investigation into potential lead contamination given the area’s long industrial history.
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