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Construction of General Iron’s new home on Southeast Side moving at full steam ahead

Construction on a new site where General Iron plans to move its car and metal shredding facility is underway near South Burley Avenue and East 116th Street in the Southeast Side Pat Nabong/Sun ... read more

General Iron moving car shredding operation to Southeast Side

The metal recycling company General Iron Industries plans to relocate to Chicago's Southeast Side, just across the state line, raising concerns from community residents about hazardous waste and ... read more

City denies helping General Iron move to Southeast Side in letter to feds

Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Administration denied to federal investigators that it helped General Iron’s owner relocate its car-shredding operation to the Southeast Side from Lincoln Park, despite ... read more

Mayor Lightfoot Delays General Iron Permit To Move To South Side Over EPA Concerns - CBS News

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Plans to relocate a Lincoln Park car shredding plant to the Southeast Side are on hold because of environmental concerns. General Iron has a history of violations with the ... read more

Hunger strike protests General Iron move to Southeast Side

People opposed to the plan to move the metal-shredding operations of General Iron to the Southeast Side are staging a hunger strike until the city denies an application for a permit to operate. read more

Planned move of scrap shredder alarms Southeast Side pollution fighters: ‘We’re tired of being the city’s dumping ground’ - Chicago Tribune

Under the deal announced last week, General Iron plans to move its shredding operation by 2020 to a portion of the former Republic Steel property off 116th Street between the Calumet River and ... read more

Judge denies General Iron permit to open on Southeast Side - The Times of Northwest Indiana

A judge upheld Chicago's decision to deny General Iron a permit for moving a car-shredding operation to the Southeast Side based on concerns about air pollution. read more

City Denies Operating Permit For Controversial Metal Shredding Plant On Southeast Side, Citing 'Unacceptable Risk' - CBS News

The city also cited a lengthy history of pollution problems at RMG's old General Iron scrap yard in Lincoln Park, which RMG shut down at the end of 2020 as it prepared to relocate the operation to ... read more

General Iron move halted as Biden EPA weighs in

General Iron’s owner, Reserve Management Group, acquired the scrap metal shredding operation in 2019. It needs a city permit to complete the move to the Calumet River location. Lightfoot.signed ... read more

General Iron Chicago: Illinois EPA approves permit to move scrap metal plant to East Side neighborhood - ABC7 Chicago

Construction of a new recycling operation is anticipated at 116th and Avenue O in the East Side neighborhood after General Iron, owned by RMG. Oscar Sanchez, who lives nearby, opposes the ... read more

Pritzker backs down on General Iron - WBEZ Chicago

Nearly four years after Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s administration gave the OK for the General Iron scrap-metal operation to move to the Southeast Side, he’s agreed that the state of Illinois will ... read more

Chronic polluter General Iron is moving from its wealthy, white North Side home to a low-income Latino neighborhood. The feds want to know why. - Chicago Tribune

An Ohio-based company that bought General Iron last year wants to move the operation from Lincoln Park to a site on the Calumet River in the East Side neighborhood. read more