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Oct 18, 2017 · On the wind-whipped shore of Lake Michigan, a little over 10 miles from downtown Chicago, Illinois, stand what look like the foundations of a massive fortress.These hulks of concrete are the silent remnants of the U.S. Steel South Works production plant—an industrial behemoth that, in its heyday, employed more than 20,000 residents of the Chicago area.
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Jan 27, 2023 · The Citgo refinery in Lemont in 2019. Only three other refineries discharged more selenium than BP Whiting, located on the southwest shore of Lake Michigan about 8 miles from one of Chicago’s ...
Aerial photograph of oil refinery fire at Standard Oil’s Whiting, Indiana complex taken on August 27, 1955. The Standard Oil refinery is located about 3 miles away from Southeast Chicago and many area residents worked at the refinery. Firefighters from Chicago as well as Whiting, Hammond, and East Chicago, Indiana all helped fight the blaze.
Like their male counterparts throughout the refinery, the girls had their own factory sports team. They called themselves the Kalo-chromes. And on one refinery game day, a Standard Oil writer referred to them were on the sporting field as "bright and shining lights." (Stanolind Record, October 1923)
Jan 30, 2023 · Oil refineries are discharging toxic pollutants into our waterways and the Great Lakes with little oversight from regulators. Three of the very worst polluters are refineries right here in the Chicago area — BP’s Whiting Refinery in Indiana, Exxon Mobil’s Joliet refinery, and Citgo’s refinery in Lemont.
Jul 20, 2020 · Inland Steel Plant 3 East Chicago Indiana, looking west from Dickey Rd. John Hawkins: Started in Plt. #3. That's A Furnace in the background. Watched both A & B come down one Sunday morning. Howard Gene: The newest car I see is a 54. Larry Candilas posted Dickey Road, East Chicago at shift change a very, very long time ago.
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Oct 28, 2019 · In fact, many residents in Chicago’s West Side neighborhoods could proudly boast that theirs were the hands that made them. And in return, the trades provided well for them. “The time that I spent at Brach’s, it was a good place to work,” said Charles Miller, who worked 13 years at the candy manufacturing complex where the Austin, Humboldt Park and West Garfield Park neighborhoods meet.
