Funeral home shocker, pollution, mad bomber: Far South Side neighbors have been through a lot
<p>Jim Kinney has seen just about everything in his Far Southeast Side neighborhood: industrial waste that lit up the sky, the crime of the century, a mad bomber and a business that’s been allowed to fill the air with a stench that smells like rotting flesh.</p><p>Recently, just across the alley from his longtime home on 95th Street near Commercial Avenue, it was discovered that a funeral parlor neglected to care for <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2026/08/06/decomposing-bodies-found-funeral-home-south-chicago-chapel-95th-street" >dozens of dead bodies</a> that were in various stages of decomposing.</p><p>“You can’t enjoy any outdoor things in the summer,” he says. “It smells like something died.”</p><p>Kinney is not describing South Chicago Chapel funeral home just behind his house, which was recently closed after the discovery of rotting bodies.
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<p>Jim Kinney has seen just about everything in his Far Southeast Side neighborhood: industrial waste that lit up the sky, the crime of the century, a mad bomber and a business that’s been allowed to fill the air with a stench that smells like rotting flesh.</p><p>Recently, just across the alley from his longtime home on 95th Street near Commercial Avenue, it was discovered that a funeral parlor neglected to care for <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2026/08/06/decomposing-bodies-found-funeral-home-south-chicago-chapel-95th-street" >dozens of dead bodies</a> that were in various stages of decomposing.</p><p>“You can’t enjoy any outdoor things in the summer,” he says. “It smells like something died.”</p><p>Kinney is not describing South Chicago Chapel funeral home just behind his house, which was recently closed after the discovery of rotting bodies. He’s detailing a longtime nuisance that plagued the Far Southeast Side for decades: a feed-additive plant now operated by <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/environment/2025/07/09/pullman-innovations-odor-pollution-violations-chicago-health-epa-peter-chico" >Pullman Innovations</a>, which is being sued by residents and <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/environment/2026/08/05/attorney-general-city-lawsuit-against-pullman-innovations-odors-kwame-raoul" >city and state authorities</a>.</p><p>This is the community of <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/south-deering" >South Deering</a>, or as locals know it, Vet’s Park or Slag Valley — a nickname with roots in the steel-making heyday of Chicago. Decades ago, companies dumped molten metal left over from steelmaking into sites across the neighborhood.
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- <p>Jim Kinney has seen just about everything in his Far Southeast Side neighborhood: industrial waste that lit up the sky, the crime of the century, a mad bomber and a business that’s been allowed to fill the air with a stench that smells like rotting flesh.</p><p>Recently, just across the alley from his longtime home on 95th Street near Commercial Avenue, it was discovered that a funeral parlor neglected to care for <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2026/08/06/decomposing-bodies-found-funeral-home-south-chicago-chapel-95th-street" >dozens of dead bodies</a> that were in various stages of decomposing.</p><p>“You can’t enjoy any outdoor things in the summer,” he says. “It smells like something died.”</p><p>Kinney is not describing South Chicago Chapel funeral home just behind his house, which was recently closed after the discovery of rotting bodies.
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