Nara Schoenberg

There are no shiny black solar panels on the roof of his condo building, but Paul Dickerson is enjoying the benefits of clean energy just the same. Dickerson, 73, of...

Who could possibly be opposed to protecting native plants? That's the question that has volunteers buzzing at LaBagh Woods on the Northwest Side, where a mysterious dismantler of protective fencing...

Another deadline has passed in the high-profile battle to save Bell Bowl Prairie in Rockford, one of the last remnants of ancient prairie in Illinois, and home to the federally...

Otter 926 perched on a ledge in her new room at Shedd Aquarium, as close as she could get to the newspaper photographer on the other side of a built-in...

For Ken Dunn, the tracks told the story. Dunn, a leader in Chicago recycling for four decades, arrived at work on the morning of Aug. 3 to find chewed-up curbs...

City Council has made life easier — and less expensive — for Chicagoans who want to reduce their carbon footprints by installing electric stoves, clothes dryers and water heaters. Under...