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Illinois Indigenous and environmental groups call Biden administration to shut down Dakota Access Pipeline expansion

March 3, 2021

Illinois Indigenous rights activists, tribal governments and environmentalist groups are joining a national call for the Biden administration to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline after the Illinois...

LakeDance & Watershed Collective discusses rising lake, emergency plans

February 11, 2021

Chicago’s LakeDance & Watershed Collective hosted a webinar Wednesday detailing the rise of Lake Michigan’s water levels and its ensuing impacts on local beaches. According to Stefanie Levine,...

Evanston City Council mulls furlough day, hiring freeze

August 18, 2015

Illinois Budget Crisis Aldermen voted Monday to file away a narrowed package of solutions to reduce this year’s projected city budget deficit and manage the effect of upcoming state budget cuts,...

Letter to the Editor: With death of Anne Smedinghoff, America is a little poorer

April 28, 2013

Sometime earlier this month we awoke to the news that one of the five Americans killed April 6 in Afghanistan was a 25-year-old woman, Anne Smedinghoff, from River Forest. A graduate of Johns Hopkins University,...