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The Schroud Site in Hegewisch neighborhood in Chicago on Friday, Sept. 28, 2018.
The Schroud Site contains high levels of lead, arsenic, zinc and other heavy metals in sediment from a small creek on the northern edge of the property that connects Wolf Lake to the Calumet River. A story on pending action designating Chicago's first toxic Superfund site in several years.
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Desarrollador tenía grandes planes para un terreno contaminado por las acereras en el sureste de Chicago. Pero cambió la propiedad por millones y ahora los contribuyentes pagarían por la limpieza

December 7, 2020 at 11:07 a.m.

Durante los últimos años de la otrora poderosa industria siderúrgica de Chicago, un desarrollador de gran influencia aprovechó la oportunidad de hacer millones al tiempo que ofrecía al asediado sureste...

A site on Chicago's Southeast Side where Reserve Management Group is building a new scrap shredder is shown in 2018. The company is moving operations from General Iron on the North Side.

Developer had big plans for land polluted by the steel industry on Chicago’s Southeast Side. Instead, he flipped the property for millions, and now taxpayers likely will pay for the cleanup.

December 22, 2020 at 8:30 p.m.

During the last years of Chicago's once-mighty steel industry, a clout-heavy developer seized an opportunity to make millions while offering the city's beleaguered Southeast Side a glimmer of hope. Donald...

Abhilasha Shrestha (der.), investigadora de la Escuela de Salud Pública de la Universidad de Illinois en Chicago, y Christopher Owen, estudiante de doctorado, con muestras de aguas residuales de las tres plantas de tratamiento de la ciudad, en el edificio de la Escuela de Salud Pública de la UIC en Chicago el 12 de noviembre de 2020. Este laboratorio es parte de un nuevo esfuerzo para monitorear las aguas residuales para identificar brotes de COVID-19.

¿Estaría la respuesta contra el covid-19 en los inodoros?

November 23, 2020 at 11:03 p.m.

Con las infecciones por covid-19 aumentando nuevamente a un ritmo alarmante, Chicago lucha para ponerse al día con otras ciudades que pronostican brotes mediante el análisis de desechos humanos arrojados...

University of Illinois at Chicago-School of Public Health researcher Abhilasha Shrestha, right, and Ph.D. student Christopher Owen with sewage samples from the city's three treatment plants, at the UIC School of Public Health building in Chicago on Nov. 12, 2020. This lab is part of a new effort to monitor sewage to identify COVID-19 outbreaks.

Every toilet flush reveals a clue in fight to stop COVID-19

November 20, 2020 at 12:01 p.m.

With COVID-19 infections spiking again at an alarming rate, Chicago is scrambling to catch up to other cities forecasting outbreaks by analyzing human waste flushed down thousands of toilets. Signs...

Firefighters prepare to exit after extinguishing a scrap fire at General Iron Industries on Nov. 10, 2020, in Chicago.

Another fire halts work at troubled General Iron scrap shredder

November 11, 2020 at 3:51 p.m.

A fire shut down operations at the General Iron scrap shredder on Tuesday, a week after its owners paid an $18,000 fine for a May explosion at the North Side...

The city of Chicago ordered the immediate closure of the General Iron Industries facility in the Lincoln Park neighborhood after fire crews were called to two separate explosions there in May 2020.

General Iron scrap shredder pays $18,000 fine for explosion, noxious air pollution on the North Side

November 2, 2020 at 7:04 p.m.

Faced with abrupt and intense scrutiny from Chicago health inspectors, the new owners of a troubled North Side scrap shredder agreed Monday to pay an $18,000 fine and overhaul equipment...

An aerial view of the General Iron Industries plant on the the North Branch of the Chicago River in Chicago on Sept. 28, 2018.

Chronic polluter General Iron is moving from its wealthy, white North Side home to a low-income Latino neighborhood. The feds want to know why.

October 21, 2020 at 9:48 a.m.

Chicago is facing scrutiny from federal housing officials, who are investigating why the city is allowing a chronic polluter to move from the wealthy, largely white North Side to a...

Foresight Energy's Pond Creek mine in Williamson County.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker vows to fight climate change with clean energy. Only three other states mined more climate-changing coal than Illinois last year.

October 3, 2020 at 5:00 p.m.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker promises to move Illinois into a clean energy future. He pledges to make the state a leader in fighting climate change. But key decisions by the Chicago...

Dynegy's Baldwin Energy Complex in Baldwin recently completed completed $1 billion in environmental upgrades, Monday, Dec. 10, 2012. B582558178Z.1 (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai) ....OUTSIDE TRIBUNE CO.- NO MAGS, NO SALES, NO INTERNET, NO TV, CHICAGO OUT, NO DIGITAL MANIPULATION...

Texas company to close all of its Illinois coal-fired power plants, another sign the transition to clean energy is accelerating

January 21, 2021 at 12:41 p.m.

In a move that promises cleaner air in Chicago and other cities as far away as New York and Boston, a Texas-based company announced Tuesday it will close its Illinois...

Ed Morales, left, and Jeff Steele, both plumbers with the city's Department of Water Management, attach a copper service line to an existing lead service line after it was accidentally damaged while they and others worked to replace water main lines in 2016.

Chicago announces plan to start replacing lead water pipes after decades of denying the dangers

September 10, 2020 at 12:43 p.m.

Chicago, the last big American city to require water pipes made of brain-damaging lead, is now the last one beginning to rip toxic pipes out of the ground. Under plans...

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