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The Chicago Board of Ethics fined former inspector general Joe Ferguson $5,000 for sharing a confidential report that blasted the city’s handling of a botched implosion that left Little Village coated in dust, city records show.

But despite the hefty fine, which the board issued last month and announced Friday, Ferguson is making no apologies for shedding light on the failed April 2020 demolition of the old Crawford coal-fired power plant’s massive smokestack.

“I have no regrets,” he wrote in a statement Monday. “This community, long subject to environmental injustice, deserved access to the truth.”

The report pinned the failure of the implosion that enveloped Little Village in dust and debris on the city for not following established regu

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