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Sara Cooper

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 3, 2026
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Top 10M sites
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Aug 14, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · Sara Cooper

    ‘Sims must go:’ as Pilsen residents protest metal shredder with a history of pollution, will Chicago break patterns of environmental injustice? - The Chicago Reporter (opens the original)

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    It is before 8 a.m. and already a continuous stream of trucks filters into Sims Metal Management at 2500 S Paulina Street in Pilsen. They carry dilapidated cars, discarded appliances and scrap to Chicago’s largest metal recycler. On this morning, June 3, the racket of trucks and heavy machinery is met with a rallying cry from a small crowd that has gathered at the facility’s gates. “What do we want? Clean air! When do we want it? Now!” As they chant, protesters carry signs that identify toxic me

  2. Article · Aug 14, 2026 · Sara Cooper

    Gasping for air - The Chicago Reporter (opens the original)

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    This story was co-published with the Chicago Reader. Gary Sams could hardly breathe. He had begun experiencing early symptoms of rapidly progressing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive and fatal neurological disease, in April 2024. By June 2025, ALS had robbed him of his ability to walk or use his hands. Now it was suffocating him. Sams desperately urged staff at Graham Correctional Center, a medium-security men’s prison in southwestern Illinois, for medical support to help his br

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