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2021-5-27 McKinley Park residents are fighting the city over the MAT Asphalt plant in their neighborhood. Jackie Montesdeoca feeds daughter Ava, 11 months, at their home in McKinley Park in Chicago, May 11 ...
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2021-5-28 About 100 trucks transport limestone and asphalt in and out of the plant daily. Michael Tadin Jr., one of the owners of MAT Asphalt plant in
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MAT Asphalt’s plant, located at 2055 W. Pershing Road, was opened in the heart of the McKinley Park neighborhood in April, 2018. The plant, which primarily produces road paving material, faces McKinley Park, and is next door to the National Latino Education Institute and a few blocks from Horizon Science Academy: McKinley Park, a K-12 Charter ...
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2021-10-19 The owner of a controversial McKinley Park asphalt plant, cited eight times by Chicago inspectors for pollution violations last year, is
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2020-9-12 MCKINLEY PARK — McKinley Park residents have waited years for a public forum to demand more input when polluters seek to operate in the neighborhood. On Thursday, they decided they were done waiting. So they created a people’s hearing for neighbors to testify how MAT Asphalt plant — which set up shop with no notice to residents in 2018 ...
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2020-3-12 McKinley Park residents turned out for a community meeting Wednesday night, braving concerns about the spread of the coronavirus to mobilize against the environmental threat in their own backyard: a hot-mix asphalt plant operating across the street from the Southwest Side neighborhood’s 70-acre namesake park, and just hundreds of feet away ...
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2020-8-29 Chicago planning officials are exploring whether a McKinley Park asphalt plant owned by a politically connected businessman can be moved to
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2019-11-30 McKinley Park Asphalt Plant Gives Away 1,000 Turkeys As Some Neighbors Work To Boot Plant From Neighborhood. The plant's manager said the turkeys are part of their effort to be a good neighbor, but residents fighting the factory say the giveaway was a publicity stunt.
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2021-10-19 The owner of a controversial McKinley Park asphalt plant, cited eight times by Chicago inspectors for pollution violations last year, is asking a state court to overturn $4,000 in fines recently assessed by the city. The fines, handed out last month for two citations in spring 2020, were the first for any alleged pollution violations for the ...
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2020-5-13 Amid Pandemic, Activists Push to Close McKinley Park Asphalt Plant. Since 2018, residents of McKinley Park on Chicago’s Southwest Side have raised concerns that the MAT Asphalt plant in their neighborhood is spewing pollutants into residential streets and yards. Now, several environmental groups say the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the ...
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2021-10-19 The owner of a controversial McKinley Park asphalt plant, cited eight times by Chicago inspectors for pollution violations last year, is asking a state court to overturn $4,000 in fines recently assessed by the city. The fines, handed out last month for two citations in spring 2020, were the first for any alleged pollution violations for the ...
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2020-8-17 Residents of McKinley Park and nearby neighborhoods, along with environmental activists, have been fighting the plant’s presence since it was constructed in spring of 2018. The asphalt plant, which produces hot mix
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2020-2-17 McKinley Park Asphalt Plant. Feb 17, 2020. Residents of Chicago’s blue collar McKinley Park neighborhood woke two years ago to find an asphalt plant operating in their neighborhood. There had been no public meetings or hearings held before the plant was built. MAT asphalt plant is on 39th street just west of Damen.
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2019-3-28 SPRINGFIELD – Assistant Majority Leader Tony Munoz (D-Chicago) is leading legislation in response to an oversight by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency that left McKinley Park residents blindsided by the construction of an asphalt plant in their neighborhood. “The public has every right to know when a facility that may affect their health is moving into
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2018-8-6 Little Village, McKinley Park and the Southeast Side all have high concentrations of Latino residents, and average median incomes fall below the Chicago average in each neighborhood. Little Village is about 85 percent
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2021-8-29 The Urban Air Chicago video explains the new air sensor network set up in Chicago from Microsoft Research and JCDecaux. In order for MAT Asphalt to meet emissions standards, the plant must release no more than 0.04 grains of particulate matter per cubic foot of air, said Brian Derry, principal at Ensafe, an environmental consulting firm contracted by MAT Asphalt.
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2021-3-5 Anthony Moser, of Neighbors for Environmental Justice, said residents of McKinley Park are demanding the closure of a nearby asphalt plant that manufactures road paving materials for the city ...
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2021-3-15 MAT Asphalt, McKinley Park, Chicago. A city inspector visited MAT Asphalt in July 2020. According to the inspection report: WHILE ON PERSHING RD NEAR DAMEN AVE, STRONG ODORS OF FRESHLY PRODUCED ASPHALT AND ODORS SIMILAR TO FIREWORKS (BURNING CHEMICALS/SULFUR) WERE OBSERVED. THESE ODORS ARE
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2021-9-17 Best of McKinley Park 2021. M cKinley Park is a predominantly Latinx working-class neighborhood on Chicago’s Southwest Side, located between Pilsen, Bridgeport, Back of the Yards, and Brighton Park. The neighborhood is only a fifteen-minute drive away from the Loop and walking distance to the Mexican corner store, La Placita on 35th.
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She calls 311 or the Department of Public Health or the 12th Ward office. She tells them she can’t open her windows, and she can’t take her 1-year-old daughter, Ava, outside for a walk. Asphalt season is starting in McKinley Park, and it announces itself by its stench, residents say.
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2020-2-17 McKinley Park Asphalt Plant. Feb 17, 2020. Residents of Chicago’s blue collar McKinley Park neighborhood woke two years ago to find an asphalt plant operating in their neighborhood. There had been no public meetings or hearings held before the plant was built. MAT asphalt plant is on 39th street just west of Damen.
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2019-3-28 SPRINGFIELD – Assistant Majority Leader Tony Munoz (D-Chicago) is leading legislation in response to an oversight by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency that left McKinley Park residents blindsided by the construction of an asphalt plant in their neighborhood. “The public has every right to know when a facility that may affect their health is moving into
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2018-7-12 CHICAGO — A new asphalt plant set to open on the Southwest Side is facing opposition. The new MAT Asphalt is set to open this month in the 2000 block of West Pershing Road in Chicago’s ...
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2021-3-5 Anthony Moser, of Neighbors for Environmental Justice, said residents of McKinley Park are demanding the closure of a nearby asphalt plant that manufactures road paving materials for the city ...
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2020-8-19 The target on Saturday was the MAT Asphalt plant, adjacent to the park, and its impact on the health of neighborhoods across the South Side. “This is not just about a little asphalt company. We want the asphalt company out, but
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2021-3-15 MAT Asphalt, McKinley Park, Chicago. A city inspector visited MAT Asphalt in July 2020. According to the inspection report: WHILE ON PERSHING RD NEAR DAMEN AVE, STRONG ODORS OF FRESHLY PRODUCED ASPHALT AND ODORS SIMILAR TO FIREWORKS (BURNING CHEMICALS/SULFUR) WERE OBSERVED. THESE ODORS ARE
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2019-5-16 McKinley Park’s need for a Neighborhood Plan McKinley Park is a working-class neighborhood located on Chicagos southwest side. Throughout its long history, McKinley Park has served as an important job center with significant portions of its
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2021-9-17 Best of McKinley Park 2021. M cKinley Park is a predominantly Latinx working-class neighborhood on Chicago’s Southwest Side, located between Pilsen, Bridgeport, Back of the Yards, and Brighton Park. The neighborhood is only a fifteen-minute drive away from the Loop and walking distance to the Mexican corner store, La Placita on 35th.
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McKinley Park residents love their namesake park and affordable neighborhood. But they are fighting the city over an asphalt plant they say is ruining its charm. Visit site
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She calls 311 or the Department of Public Health or the 12th Ward office. She tells them she can’t open her windows, and she can’t take her 1-year-old daughter, Ava, outside for a walk. Asphalt season is starting in McKinley Park, and it announces itself by its stench, residents say.
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