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Eastside Brownfield. By: Jessica Sotelo Margie Bray Darnell Jordan. Property Location. 209-221 E. 14 th Street Northwest corner Center & 14 th Street (Lincoln Highway). Latitude and Longitude. Longitude: 87 degree 37’ 39.131” W Latitude: 41 degree 30’ 22.765” N. Size in acres.
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Eastside Brownfield By: Jessica Sotelo Margie Bray Darnell Jordan
Property Location • 209-221 E. 14th Street • Northwest corner Center & 14th Street (Lincoln Highway)
Latitude and Longitude • Longitude: 87 degree 37’ 39.131” W • Latitude: 41 degree 30’ 22.765” N
Size in acres • 1/3 acre (140’ x 187’ x 61’ x 104’)
Potential Hazardous Substances • Metal debris, industrial cleaning solvent
Neighboring Properties • None known
Who owns the site? • The city of Chicago Heights
Review of Records • It was used by Baker Heating & Sheet Metal, a tin fabricating business, common address 213 E. 14th Street.
Review of Records • The properties were abandoned as of 1984 and structure the city of Chicago Heights in tax sale resulting in deed in 9/1995.
Review of Records • The property is arterial access for commercial/industrial/individual motor vehicle traffic between I-394 and I-57.
Review of Records • The property is also adjacent to Martin Luther King Park (CH Park District) to the north.
Is this property a brownfield? • Because of its abandoned/open nature, the property was subject to the potential for illegal, undetected dumping and exposure to substances that anyone who might wander on/use the premises would deposit.