Morgan Greene

Parishioners raise their hands in worship as the Rev. Michael Pfleger leads the Sunday morning service at St. Sabina Church on June 6, 2021. "It's good to be home," an emotional Pfleger said to a packed and jubilant crowd at St. Sabina Church — his first time leading a congregation in five months.

St. Sabina plans to withhold monthly $100,000 assessments until investigation of the Rev. Michael Pfleger complete

February 28, 2021 at 5:50 p.m.

St. Sabina Church plans to stop paying about $100,000 in monthly assessments to the Archdiocese of Chicago to try to hasten the investigation into decades-old sexual abuse allegations involving the...

The icy Rock River at at Castle Rock State Park.

Just 50 miles from Lake Michigan, groundwater is running out, leaving Illinois towns with a tough choice to make

February 26, 2021 at 4:43 p.m.

On a rainy day in northeastern Illinois, you might have stepped outside and wondered when the downpour would end, without realizing a centuryold and potentially life-changing deficit was growing hundreds...

A woman walks past a sculpture on the Lakefront Trail along Lake Michigan near the 2900 block of North Lake Shore Drive on Feb. 25, 2021, in Chicago.

More Illinois residents are turning to Lake Michigan for their drinking water. Climate change could add volatility to the supply.

February 26, 2021 at 4:52 p.m.

More than 6 1/2 million Illinois residents get their drinking water from Lake Michigan. As northeastern Illinois' supply of groundwater shrinks, more municipalities are considering joining that number. Joliet is...

Pancake ice appears near Evanston's South Boulevard Beach on Feb. 2, 2021.

Pancake ice, large slabs that look like deep-dish pizzas, may reappear in Lake Michigan with this weekend’s cold snap

February 5, 2021 at 10:24 a.m.

Nearly a year into the pandemic, a week after shoveling out a foot of snow and on the cusp of another Midwestern cold snap, ice along the Chicago shoreline may...

The Brandon Road Lock and Dam, along the Des Plaines River near Joliet, on Feb. 1, 2021. The Army Corps of Engineers is working on a project to deter Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes by constructing an acoustic fish deterrent, electric dispersal barrier, engineered channel, flushing lock and air bubble curtain in the area.

Project to block Asian carp from entering Lake Michigan moves forward: ‘We’re essentially adding a very successful linebacker to our defense’

February 2, 2021 at 5:10 p.m.

It's not good news for some of the most foreboding fish in Illinois swimming their way toward Lake Michigan. The next phase of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' project...

Large stones are seen in place Jan. 25, 2021, to help protect the shoreline near the South Shore Cultural Center in Chicago.

Work underway to fill sinkholes and stabilize parts of the lakefront on the South Side as first major storm of the season strikes

January 26, 2021 at 6:54 p.m.

The Chicago Park District is tackling sinkholes on the South Side as part of its latest effort to bolster the shoreline as storms and erosion continue to ravage sections of...

Damaged by last year's derecho storm, fallen trees are seen piled up at the Bill Jarvis Migratory Bird Sanctuary in Chicago near Belmont Harbor on Friday, Jan. 19, 2021.

$11 billion in damage from last summer’s derecho: ‘Historically it produced the most damage in the least amount of time.’

January 20, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

The summer derecho that rattled windows and ripped down trees across Illinois and the Midwest caused an estimated $11 billion in damage, becoming the costliest storm event to occur in...

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