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U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski, left, and Democratic primary challenger Marie Newman shake hands at the end of a League of Women Voters candidate forum at Moraine Valley Community College on Feb. 21, 2018.

Newman concedes, saying she put Lipinski on notice to do ‘better for all of the people in our district’

May 15, 2019 at 4:47 p.m.

Marie Newman conceded to seven-term U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski via a statement posted on social media Wednesday morning. “I entered this race to fight for the rights of the hardworking...

Even with $1 billion upgrade, Deep Tunnel swamped by winter storm as streets and basements flooded

May 23, 2019 at 12:36 a.m.

Despite a new $1 billion flood-control reservoir more than 20 times bigger than Soldier Field, rain and melting snow swamped the largest section of the Deep Tunnel project in less...

Foxconn Technology Group's new factory site in Wisconsin lies partially outside the Great Lakes Basin. But it is counting on a steady stream of Lake Michigan water, delivered courtesy of nearby Racine.

Foxconn finds way to stick 7 million-gallon straw into Lake Michigan

May 23, 2019 at 12:35 a.m.

Great Lakes states are so zealous about guarding their increasingly valuable natural resource from thirsty outsiders that all eight of the region’s governors had to sign off before an inland...

City Treasurer Kurt Summers on April 26, 2017.

Chicago treasurer: Use city’s investment portfolio to fight climate change, promote social progress

December 14, 2018 at 1:45 p.m.

As New York City sues oil companies and plans to dump investments in fossil fuel production, Chicago Treasurer Kurt Summers is pushing to go even further and use the $7...

Cathy Stepp, secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, speaks in her Madison, Wis., office on Jan. 13, 2017. Stepp is now in charge of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency region that oversees Illinois and five other states.

Another break for Foxconn? EPA office led by Gov. Walker’s former aide to decide smog pollution rules

May 23, 2019 at 12:29 a.m.

Armed with years of air quality testing and other evidence, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency tentatively concluded late last year that most of southeast Wisconsin needs to take more aggressive...

Adaline Eisenmann, 10, from left, works on math homework next to sister Anni, 3, as their mother, Jodi, watches at their home in Mahomet, Ill., on Jan. 26, 2018.

Under Rauner, penalties sought against Illinois polluters have plummeted

June 14, 2024 at 6:42 p.m.

Well before the Trump administration began shifting responsibility for enforcing environmental laws to the states, Illinois already had slowed down the policing of air and water pollution under Gov. Bruce...

Toxic waste from coal ash pits leaching into Illinois’ only National Scenic River

December 14, 2018 at 10:46 a.m.

Seven years after Dynegy Inc. scrapped one of the last coal plants in downstate Illinois, environmental groups are accusing the company of failing to prevent toxic waste stored nearby from...

Inspectors from the Chicago office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have documented hundreds of violations of federal air pollution standards at the Indiana Harbor Coke Co. in East Chicago.

EPA brokers deal to clean up East Chicago air polluter

May 31, 2019 at 4:05 p.m.

An East Chicago coke producer agreed Thursday to dramatically clean up its operations, resolving a case that involved hundreds of violations of federal pollution standards but had stalled under the...

A view of Indiana steel mills from Promontory Point in Chicago's Hyde Park during subzero temperatures on Jan. 2, 2018.

Chicago joins Lake Michigan surfers in suing U.S. Steel over toxic chromium spills

December 15, 2018 at 1:49 a.m.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday added the city’s legal muscle to a lawsuit filed by Lake Michigan surfers over spills of toxic chromium from a U.S. Steel plant near...

A view of Indiana steel mills from Promontory Point in Chicago's Hyde Park during subzero temperatures on Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018

Lawsuit accuses U.S. Steel of polluting Lake Michigan with toxic chromium

May 23, 2019 at 12:25 a.m.

As a group of Lake Michigan surfers filed a lawsuit Wednesday accusing U.S. Steel of repeatedly violating the federal Clean Water Act, it appears their earlier threat of legal action...

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