Commentary: Clean air should not be for sale. Why Chicago needs a clean buildings ordinance
As a young boy, my asthmatic lungs knew when harvest started in the nearby farm fields of central Illinois. Without a combine in sight, I knew that the work had begun.
As the corn and soybean particulates swirled in the country air, tears welled with the sharp tightening of my small chest — as I battled my body to take a deep breath.
As I grew older, I learned the hard way to
