A freakish, 10-foot-high inland wave crashed onto the Chicago shoreline from the Chicago River north to Wilmette on June 26, 1954. But scientists now think it was something else.
The suit, filed Monday in Lake County Court, seeks a court order to make the owner/operator of the Lake Behavioral Center file a plan to decontaminate the site and safely conclude demolition.
An air quality alert was issued for Sunday and Monday as hot weather can increase levels of pollutants in the atmosphere.
Making buses and trains attractive alternatives to personal cars is a key strategy in efforts to limit emissions.
In a wooded clearing in Lake Forest, a team of researchers crouched close to the grass. They watched as hundreds of ants crawled over seeds, sipped sugar water and indulged in a seasonal treat: cicadas. Ants’ foraging activities may seem trivial. But to these scientists, they’re a gateway to unraveling the little-known impact on forest food webs when billions of cicadas emerge from the ground in Illinois. “We’re trying to look at the interconnectedness of all of this,” said researcher Sean B. Menke, an ant expert and biology professor at Lake Forest College. It’s one of the many unknowns surrounding […]
The water quality of the Seine river in Paris is raising concerns ahead of the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The fate of multiple pairs of grassland birds nesting in a field at County Line Orchard in Hobart that serves as an overflow parking in the fall and was slated for haying this month erupted into a social media controversy and prompted the orchard to consider delaying the work until after nesting season.
Sheila McNary had a somewhat complicated relationship with Riot Fest over the years. The 71-year-old North Lawndale resident lives across the street from Douglass Park. When the festival moved to the park in 2015 — following neighbor complaints at its previous location in Humboldt Park — McNary said it almost felt like the community was being invaded by unfamiliar music and traffic congestion. McNary and her husband left to stay in a hotel for the weekend. “When they first came, it was more or less like a group coming to profit from a big festival in the community that they’re […]
A soft white adult cicada molts out of its nymphal shell on a tree along the North Branch of the Chicago River in Skokie, May 30, 2024. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)
The forest district board voted 16-2 to approve the bond sale, with two Republican board members — Mark Revis of Plainfield and Raquel Mitchell of Bolingbrook — casting no votes.