Funeral home shocker, pollution, mad bomber: Far South Side neighbors have been through a lot

Source WBEZ
Original Load Date Aug. 14, 2026, 5:01 a.m.
Last Updated Aug. 14, 2026, 5:01 a.m.
Original URL https://www.wbez.org/environment/2026/08/14/south-chicago-chapel-funeral-home-smell-pollution-pullman-innovations-odor-southeast-side-south-deering-steel-mills

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Jim Kinney has seen just about everything in his Far Southeast Side neighborhood: industrial waste that lit up the sky, the crime of the century, a mad bomber and a business that’s been allowed to fill the air with a stench that smells like rotting flesh. Recently, just across the alley from his lo...