City Fails to Report Contamination at Youth Ball Field

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A city in Illinois may have known about contamination at a local baseball field and still gave a youth baseball league the green light to play there.

According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Hegewisch city officials detected high levels of the brain-damaging metal manganese in the dirt of a Southeast Side youth baseball field a year ago but didn’t tell league organizers or families of players.

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