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Imagine Englewood If volunteers educate neighbors on the effects of lead poisoning.


Leading Englewood's lead campaign

by Chika S. Oduah
March 18, 2010


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For more than five decades, Englewood has dealt with high amounts of lead. Along with Lead Safe Illinois, community activists have helped to reduce the number of lead-poisoned children in the South Side neighborhood from more than a thousand to less than 800, as of last year. Chika Oduah shows us the faces behind the campaign for lead awareness.