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Altgeld Gardens Homes

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Altgeld Gardens Homes is a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project on the far south side of Chicago, Illinois, United States, on the border of Chicago and Riverdale, Illinois. [1]

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  1. 37 relations: African Americans, Air pollution, Asthma, Barack Obama, Bronchitis, Chicago, Chicago Housing Authority, DDT, Donald Trump, Dreams from My Father, Environmental justice, Environmental racism, Heavy metals, Illinois, John Peter Altgeld, Lake Michigan, Lead poisoning, List of environmental ministries, List of Superfund sites, National Register of Historic Places, Polychlorinated biphenyl, Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, Public housing, Pullman Company, Rahm Emanuel, Respiratory disease, Riverdale, Illinois, Scott Pruitt, Subsidized housing in the United States, United States, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Water pollution, World War II, Xylene, 100% renewable energy, 2000 United States census.

  2. Populated places established in 1945
  3. Public housing in Chicago
  4. Residential buildings in Chicago

African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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Air pollution

Air pollution is the contamination of air due to the presence of substances called pollutants in the atmosphere that are harmful to the health of humans and other living beings, or cause damage to the climate or to materials.

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Asthma

Asthma is a long-term inflammatory disease of the airways of the lungs.

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.

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Bronchitis

Bronchitis is inflammation of the bronchi (large and medium-sized airways) in the lungs that causes coughing.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Chicago Housing Authority

The Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) is a municipal corporation that oversees public housing within the city of Chicago. Altgeld Gardens Homes and Chicago Housing Authority are public housing in Chicago.

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DDT

Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, commonly known as DDT, is a colorless, tasteless, and almost odorless crystalline chemical compound, an organochloride.

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Donald Trump

Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.

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Dreams from My Father

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (1995) is a memoir by Barack Obama that explores the events of his early years in Honolulu and Chicago until his entry into Harvard Law School in 1988.

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Environmental justice

Environmental justice or eco-justice, is a social movement to address environmental injustice, which occurs when poor or marginalized communities are harmed by hazardous waste, resource extraction, and other land uses from which they do not benefit.

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Environmental racism

Environmental racism, ecological racism, or ecological apartheid is a form of racism leading to negative environmental outcomes such as landfills, incinerators, and hazardous waste disposal disproportionately impacting communities of color, violating substantive equality.

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Heavy metals

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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John Peter Altgeld

John Peter Altgeld (December 30, 1847 – March 12, 1902) was an American politician and the 20th Governor of Illinois, serving from 1893 until 1897.

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Lake Michigan

Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America.

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Lead poisoning

Lead poisoning, also known as plumbism and saturnism, is a type of metal poisoning caused by lead in the body.

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List of environmental ministries

An environmental ministry is a national or subnational government agency politically responsible for the environment and/or natural resources.

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List of Superfund sites

Superfund sites are polluted locations in the United States requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value".

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Polychlorinated biphenyl

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are highly carcinogenic chemical compounds, formerly used in industrial and consumer products, whose production was banned in the United States by the Toxic Substances Control Act in 1976 and internationally by the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants in 2001.

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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon

A polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) is a class of organic compounds that is composed of multiple aromatic rings.

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Public housing

Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is usually owned by a government authority, either central or local.

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Pullman Company

The Pullman Company, founded by George Pullman, was a manufacturer of railroad cars in the mid-to-late 19th century through the first half of the 20th century, during the boom of railroads in the United States.

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Rahm Emanuel

Rahm Israel Emanuel (born November 29, 1959) is an American politician and diplomat currently serving as United States ambassador to Japan.

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Respiratory disease

Respiratory diseases, or lung diseases, are pathological conditions affecting the organs and tissues that make gas exchange difficult in air-breathing animals.

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Riverdale, Illinois

Riverdale is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States.

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Scott Pruitt

Edward Scott Pruitt (born May 9, 1968) is an American attorney, lobbyist and Republican politician from the state of Oklahoma.

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Subsidized housing in the United States

In the United States, subsidized housing is administered by federal, state and local agencies to provide subsidized rental assistance for low-income households.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government.

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United States Environmental Protection Agency

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with environmental protection matters.

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Water pollution

Water pollution (or aquatic pollution) is the contamination of water bodies, with a negative impact on their uses.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Xylene

In organic chemistry, xylene or xylol (IUPAC name: dimethylbenzene) are any of three organic compounds with the formula.

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100% renewable energy

100% renewable energy is the goal of the use renewable resources for all energy.

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2000 United States census

The 2000 United States census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2 percent over the 248,709,873 people enumerated during the 1990 census.

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See also

Populated places established in 1945

Public housing in Chicago

Residential buildings in Chicago

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altgeld_Gardens_Homes

Also known as Altgeld Gardens Homes (Chicago, Illinois).