The land, adjacent to the South Chicago neighborhood, was once home to the US Steel South Works plant. But the plant closed in 1992, and the site has sat empty ever since despite various plans to ...

The cargo schooner, which sank in 1893 and only was found last year, is especially notable because of its ties to Wisconsin and Door County.

The South Shore Convention and Visitors Authority will help the city of Hammond round out funding for an Optimist Lake ...

Franciscan Health Outpatient Therapy Homewood offers physical, occupational and speech therapy. The clinic features seven ...

The decades-old St. Patrick's Day tradition routinely attracts tens of thousands of revelers to the riverfront, but in recent ...

Army Corps halts expansion of toxic dump by Lake Michigan after lawsuit and opposition from Chicago groups concerned about environmental and health impacts.

For years, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers insisted that extending the landfill was the best option. But after a lengthy legal fight, the corps has changed its position. The part ...

The proposed expansion along the shoreline would have taken in an additional 1 million cubic yards of contaminated sediment dredged from the Calumet River — the Corps’ solution to the disposal site’s ...

Heavy with Italian tradition, Chicago is home to some of the country’s best red sauce restaurants. From timeless classics, such as spaghetti and meatballs and chicken Vesuvio, to contemporary ...

The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency has already deemed the existing dump site an environmental justice concern.

The site at the mouth of the Calumet River was supposed ... protecting healthy communities and Lake Michigan,” said Howard Learner, who heads the Chicago-based Environmental Law & Policy Center ...

The Chicago Housing Authority complex is between ... decades after the pollution and health risks were well known. The Lake Calumet Cluster is one of three Superfund sites on the Far South Side ...