The children of Chicago are affected by lead poisoning at rates twice as high as the national average. Most of the lead poisoning cases reported are in the Chicago neighborhoods of the south and west side, particularly the low-income neighborhoods such as Englewood, Austin, and Lawndale (Hawthorne, 2015). The rate of lead poisoning in these neighborhoods is 6 times higher than lead poisoning in other areas of Chicago, with majority of cases affecting black low-income children living in these neighborhoods (Epton, Bordens, & Hing, 2015). In 2013, the Illinois Department of Public Health reported more than 10,000 children living in Chicago had blood lead levels greater than the reference point given by the CDC (Hawthorne, 2015). This is concerning
