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Fighting the Cloud Factory

Marisol Becerra dreams of a clean neighborhood and world.

By Kari Lydersen

For Marisol Becerra and other kids growing up in the Little Village neighborhood in Chicago, the smokestack from the Crawford coal-burning power plant is part of the gritty, industrial landscape called home. Located between a major highway, rail line and canal, the plant dominates the skyline of the southwest side neighborhood. Since age 14, Becerra, now 19, has been trying to… return to article

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