Taylor Collins, 11, lifts her 5-year-old sister Chloie up to an ice cream truck so she can choose her dessert as their sister Gianna, 6, at left, watches. Marktown, an East Chicago neighborhood, is bordered by steel mills and a British Petroleum refinery, seen at back.
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American industry disproportionately affects the health of minority and low-income communities, and East Chicago, Ind. — known as the country’s “most industrialized municipality” during the Industrial Revolution — offers a view of environmental injustices emerging throughout the Rust Belt.