Myles Tolliver won in the Lake County Democratic Party’s at-large caucus Friday night, earning 36 of the 39 possible votes.

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.

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 ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is closing offices across the country as part of a wider rollback of pollution ...

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

This week, the Army Corps finally withdrew its proposal to extend the landfill, due in part to Illinois state permits getting ...

The proposed expansion along the shoreline would have taken in an additional 1 million cubic yards of contaminated sediment ...

The dump — known as a confined disposal facility — was constructed in 1984 to store polluted sediment dredged from the Calumet River and Cal-Sag Channel. When it reached capacity, the initial plan was ...

The Southeast Side is expected to eventually get a new green space after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers cleans up the site ...

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