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Chicago attorney, Antonio Romanucci of Romanucci & Blandin along with community activists, Neringa Zymancius and Andrea Thome discuss the very real threat Willowbrook and the surrounding areas are facing from ethylene oxide emissions coming from the Sterigenics International facility in Willowbrook. Calling it a potential public health crisis, FOX 32 shares how a recent EPA report shed light on the fact that those living within several miles of the Sterigenics plant face a greatly increased risk of developing cancer. In fact, the Willowbrook census tract has a cancer risk that is 64 times higher than the EPA’s acceptable limits and is in the 99.9th percentile in terms of cancer risk in the country. Only one facility in the entire country - St. John the Baptist, Louisiana, in the state’s notorious “cancer alley” of oil refineries and petrochemical processors - exceeds Willowbrook’s cancer risk.