(IL) Chicago Tribune – Toxic chemicals have crept into the drinking water in a corner of rural Grundy County, stoking fears and raising suspicions about who is to blame.
Tests by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency on at least five private wells in a neighborhood that abuts a large landfill near Morris, an hour’s drive from Chicago, have shown dangerously high levels of arsenic, selenium, lead, thallium, antimony and other potentially harmful chemicals. More