Can Chicago’s mayor tackle environmental racism in one of the most segregated US cities?

Brandon Johnson promised to address the city's longstanding inequities - advocates want to make the most of the moment

On the campaign trail, Brandon Johnson often talked about the asthma he suffered growing up just west of Chicago, connecting it to industrial pollution.

For too long our communities have been seen as dumping grounds for waste and materials that no one seems to know what to do with," the then mayoral candidate said at an event in the majority-Hispanic neighborhood of Pilsen.