Judge Approves a $12.25 Million Hilco Settlement Over Botched Demolition in Chicago

A federal judge has signed off on a $12.25 million settlement agreement in a class action lawsuit filed over the botched demolition of a coal power plant smokestack in the Little Village neighborhood in 2020.

The settlement will cover property damage and personal injury claims filed against Hilco after it commissioned the implosion of the smokestack at the shuttered Crawford power plant at 35th and Kedzie on April 11, 2020, coating the surrounding Little Village neighborhood in a massive cloud of dust and debris.

Little Village resident and activist Irma Morales remembers the implosion like it was yesterday.

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