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Brain-damaging lead found in tap water in hundreds of homes tested across Chicago

APRIL 13, 2018 | by Cecilia Reyes, Michael Hawthorne | CHICAGO TRIBUNE

"A Tribune analysis of the results shows lead was found in water drawn from nearly 70 percent of the 2,797 homes tested during the past two years. ... The testing kit results provide the most conclusive evidence yet of widespread hazards that have remained hidden for decades. Yet as Mayor Rahm Emanuel borrows hundreds of millions of dollars to overhaul the city's public water system, Chicago is keeping lead service lines in the ground." 

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