Chicago Sanitary And Ship Canal POISONED To Block Feared Asian Carp
LOCKPORT, Ill. — Environmental officials say they have found a single Asian carp in a canal leading to Lake Michigan – the closest any of ...
LOCKPORT, Ill. — Environmental officials say they have found a single Asian carp in a canal leading to Lake Michigan – the closest any of ...
Henry Henderson | Posted 11.25.2009 | Chicago
The news was very bad on Friday when state and Federal agencies admitted that tests show invasive Asian carp have evaded an electrical barrier intende...
Henry Henderson | Posted 11.20.2009 | Chicago
The water rich communities of the Great Lakes region do not understand the nature and value of their most precious resource.
Debra Shore | Posted 11.16.2009 | Chicago
In our sanitation system, we pump water miles to our homes then we use that fresh water in catchbasins called toilets to convey our waste to a sewage treatment plant. How smart is that?
Fox Chicago | Posted 10.22.2009 | Chicago
Emergency crews are responding to a hazardous materials situation Thursday morning after a train derailed in the South Loop, sending fuel into the Chi...
Brian Dickie | Posted 11.22.2009 | Chicago
I have been in Chicago for ten years and had never been in Chinatown before. A trip on the water taxi there is lovely and relaxing.
Chicago Journal | TIM TALIAFERRO | Posted 11.18.2009 | Chicago
A chain link fence separates Bubbly Creek, a polluted backwater cul-de-sac of the Chicago River, from human contact near 35th Street and Racine Avenue...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 09.21.2009 | Chicago
An alligator thought to be a pet that had grown too large for its owner's peace of mind was pulled from the Chicago River late Thursday night after re...
Henry Henderson | Posted 08.02.2009 | Chicago
While the city and residents have embraced the river, the governmental agency responsible for the waterway continues to turn its back to the river and consider it an open sewer.
Henry Henderson | Posted 07.26.2009 | Chicago
I think it is a simple answer: We owe the Chicago River $1.94. That small sum buys us, finally, disinfection of the human waste being dumped into the river and its connecting streams and waters.
Debra Shore | Posted 07.23.2009 | Chicago
One hundred and twenty years ago, no one asked, "What do we owe the Chicago River?" Yet today, making amends for past abuses seems to me to be the central biological, physical and moral challenge of our time.
Debra Shore | Posted 02.16.2009 | Chicago
For Chicago and our region to have a robust economy - and a healthy ecology - for the 21st century, we will be asked to embrace a new paradigm, that of stewardship.
AP | SOPHIA TAREEN | Posted 12.14.2008 | Green
CHICAGO — Connections engineered more than a century ago between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed should be changed to block ...
Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 12.04.2008 | Chicago
You know that old up-in-the-air railroad bridge over the Chicago River by Kinzie -- the one people like to use as a backdrop for funky, urban wedding ...
Chi-Town Daily News | Jennifer Slosar | Posted 11.20.2008 | Chicago
One day in July 2007, Katie Coleman found herself upside down in the Chicago River. Her kayak had hit a submerged tree stump and flipped. Coleman, 26...
Ari Bendersky | Posted 10.16.2008 | Chicago
News reports and official city press conferences tell one side of the story. Hearing first hand accounts from residents you learn a different side.
Chicago Tribune | Posted 10.15.2008 | Chicago
Evacuations and sandbagging were under way in the Albany Park neighborhood on the city's Northwest Side Sunday morning as a section of the Chicago Riv...
Chicago Public Radio | Gabriel Spitzer | Posted 10.09.2008 | Chicago
Illinois regulators want to disinfect the sewage that flows into waterways like the Chicago River. But the agency that would get that dirty job isn't ...
MyFOX Chicago | Posted 06.28.2008 | Chicago
An alligator was found in the Chicago River on the South Side Friday afternoon, police said. The alligator, which is about 5 1⁄2 to 6 feet long, wa...
AP | KAREN HAWKINS | Posted 12.04.2009 | Chicago