'The sewage is in plain sight': the majority-Black town fighting a sanitation crisis

Black residents in Centreville, Illinois, say officials ignored their pleas for help for years. Now they’re quarantined in toxic conditionsHave you faced sanitation issues? We want to hear from youSharon Smith has to plunge her toilet to get it to flush. On rainy days, wastewater spills into her yard from nearby drainage ditches. Twice in the last year her house has flooded, leaving behind the sickening smell of sewage, she said.Her carpets are ruined, the floorboards are buckling, the bat