CDC Reviews Crestwood's Cancer Reports

Crestwood, IL. - An expert with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says there were no elevated levels of cancer in a Chicago suburb where officials allegedly drew drinking water from a contaminated well.

Mark Johnson works at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. He said at a meeting in Crestwood on Saturday that he reviewed a report that detailed Illinois cancer from 1998 to 2002.

Johnson says the agency is just at the beginning of its investigation. U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin had written the agency and asked that health experts study if anyone became ill after drinking the water.

Federal agents searching for evidence of environmental crimes raided the village's offices last month.