Samples of drinking water collected under federal regulations by the state’s 1,768 water utilities provide snapshots of a widespread threat to public health that for decades has been largely ignored. A Tribune analysis of samples collected between 2015 and 2020 found tap water in dozens of Illinois homes had hundreds and even thousands of parts per billion of lead.x
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