| 2025 Windsor DriveOak Brook, DIInois 60523Telephone 630.372.9393September 18, 2006Office of the ClerkIllinois Pollution Control Board100 W.- Randolph St.
- Every day, thousands of developing fetuses, newborns and young children are
exposed to mercury when pregnant and nursing women eat contaminated fish, or children eatfish themselves.- The problem is so bad that the Illinois Department of Public
Health wars everyone - particularly pregnant women, women of childbearing age and children- tolimit their consumption of fish from every lake, river and stream in Illinois .
- Much of mercury pollution comes from local and regional sources. Illinois is not a...
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