Chicago environmentalists won a hard-fought victory late Tuesday as the city's two coal power plants announced that they will close -- one of them by the end of the year.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Midwest Generation has agreed to close its two coal fire plants. The Fisk generating station, in the city's Pilsen neighborhood, is slated to close by Dec. 31, while the Crawford plant in Little Village will close by the end of 2014.
(Scroll down to watch a report on the plants' closure.)
Mayor Rahm Emanuel last week presented what was essentially an ultimatum to the plants -- that they either clean up their pollution or risk being shut down by the city. He had campaigned on a promise that he would force the plants to reduce their dangerous emissions, Fox Chicago reports.
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