This week's Green Sense Minute features Ines Sommer, creator of "The Hills" documentary, which tells the story of Chicago's Southeast Side and how the steel mills released contaminants into the environment.
Ines Sommer is creator of "The Hills." It's a documentary about Chicago's Southeast Side, where steel mills closed several years ago, impacting the environment, economy, and wildlife. Sommer explains what was left behind.
"So when the steel mills closed in the '80s through the '90s, buildings themselves, many of them were torn down, but what they left behind is the land that they operated on and they left behind all these areas where they had dumped the slag," Sommer said. "Slag is a byproduct of steel making. There's actually lots of heavy metals in that material, including arsenic and mercury, et cetera. And they filled in portions of marshland and lakes. They filled in a huge chunk of Lake Michigan, like a whole strip of land that was basically built by dumping slag there."
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