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After a civil rights complaint, Chicago built the nation's largest air monitoring network

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Chicago deployed 227 air quality monitors—the largest such network in the U.S.—following a civil rights complaint, enabling detection of localized pollution hot spots in underserved neighborhoods.

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Monitoring identifies pollution; benefits depend on policy response to the data.

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