Credit: Northwest Indiana Genealogical Society/ CBS Chicago
Akeeshea Daniels first suspected something was off when her two toddlers came down with scarlet fever. It was 2004, and she just moved her family into a spacious public housing complex in East Chicago, Indiana.
“I looked it up. Scarlet fever hasn’t been a problem since the ‘50s,” she said. “It was something straight out of a history book.”
But when she brought her concerns to the East Chicago Housing Authority — the manager of her public housing complex— she was brushed off.
“A Pandora’s Box has been opened. Why have they waited this long to tell us?”
“They told me it was my fault for not cleaning well enough,” she said. “I had toddlers! I was cleaning every day. And then things kept happening.”
The next decade was rife with mysterious family health issues: Ear infections, upper respiratory problems, throat infections. Her son was put on ADHD […]
The Big”O” has been in office for eight years now. Doesn’t appear any of his policies are working either here, Detroit or Chicago. And now the Mad Dog wants to continue them !
After 8 years of “Democrats are the good guys” rule I would expect better. It should be obvious to even the most obtuse among us that there is no difference between D’s and R’s now.