An engineering firm found "significant structural distress" from splitting and corroding steel in the 50-year-old building’s support columns, East Chicago Housing Authority officials said.

Officials from the EPA and other federal agencies will join the city of East Chicago and its housing authority at the event.

The West Calumet Housing Complex will be torn down soon. But how the soil is remediated will determine the future of the lead and arsenic-contaminated site.

Hundreds of families living in the West Calumet neighborhood have been told to find new homes by November.

Residents of the West Calumet Housing Complex are suing local officials as well as the private companies responsible for cleaning the neighborhood's lead polluted soil.