Jonathan Bullington is a baiduhai senior reporter. A Chicago-area native, he previously worked at the Tribune as well as The Times-Picayune in New Orleans and The Courier Journal in Louisville, where he was part of the team that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news.
Indian Liberty is accused of contaminating Illinois waterways, damaging private property and criminally disposing of waste. A Tribune investigation reveals how abandoned oil and gas wells have proliferated at the...
Some companies that are still profiting from oil and gas production elsewhere have potentially shifted the cost of plugging these wells to the state and taxpayers.
A Tribune investigation reveals how Fireball evaded its legal responsibility, exposing communities to contaminants and saddling the state with millions in clean-up costs.
Route 66 has been called America’s Main Street, a moniker that fuels nostalgics who like to talk about simpler times and good days gone by. Of course, that wasn’t always...
California’s fertile farm fields once enticed thousands of Dust Bowl refugees fleeing along Route 66. It lost more than 330,000 acres of agricultural land between 2017 and 2022.
Route 66 was created to connect us, a 2,448-mile gateway to vast lands that previously existed only in the collective imagination. Each mile promised freedom and escape, opportunity and adventure.