| | In the spring of 1990, Gladys Woodson and her neighbors in Chicagoâs North Lawndale neighborhood started to notice dump trucks rolling down their streets â some sporting mismatched license plates and arriving as late as two or three a.m. "I just thought, 'Well, somebody's just parking their trucks in there,'" said Woodson, "'til a guy said, 'Ms. Woodson, come down, look at this. Do you know that somebody's over there dumping in that lot?'" The dump would eventually sprawl across a lot about half the size of the Pentagon. In a years-long investigation that led to the release of secretly recorded FBI tapes and evidence of environmental racism, USA TODAY found out what really happened in North Lawndale. Now we're telling the story in "The City," USA TODAY's new investigative podcast series.
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