Are farmers cooling Chicago’s summers?
Amid one of the warmest springs on record in Chicago, and renewed worries about our warming planet, how is it that late summer days across the Midwest are cooling? The...
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Are farmers cooling Chicago’s summers?
Amid one of the warmest springs on record in Chicago, and renewed worries about our warming planet, how is that late summer days across the Midwest are cooling? The answer...
Residents of tiny town search for source of their cancers and other illnesses
Like millions of old friends and classmates reconnecting through Facebook after decades apart, former residents of tiny Resthaven had stories to share. Their rural hometown in southern Will County had...
Graffiti artist, chased by police, jumps in river, dies
Friends of a graffiti artist who died after plunging into the Chicago River in a chase with police paid tribute the best way they knew how Wednesday: spray-painting a mural...
A dream delayed, but not dead
In 1972, three teenagers from Oak Lawn entered a recording studio with dreams and energy befitting wannabe rock superstars. Gary Wesselhoff, Ted Camer and Don Marks grew up with the...
Feds may shut locks to stop Asian carp
At a White House meeting Monday on the Asian carp threat to the Great Lakes, federal officials said they may seek to close navigational locks on Chicago-area waterways for up...
New Trier’s school building bid turned down
Across the suburbs, voters overwhelmingly rejected a $174 million school building project in Winnetka, chose state Sen. Dan Cronin as the Republican candidate for DuPage County Board chairman and set...
Agencies doubt science of Asian carp fears
Is hype or science driving fears about invasive Asian carp potentially destroying commercial fishing in the Great Lakes? Defendants in a lawsuit attempting to force Illinois to close two Chicago-area...
Michigan sues to thwart carp
The fight to keep invasive Asian carp from the Great Lakes reached the nation's highest court Monday as Michigan's attorney general sued Illinois, asking for the closing of two shipping...
Netters catch no Asian carp in Cal-Sag Channel
Several days of workers netting fish revealed no Asian carp in the Calumet Sag Channel, the task force marshaled against the invasive species said Tuesday evening. The news provided a...