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Chicago’s beach season is over … or is it? Lake Michigan temps are breaking records.
-Lake Michigan’s surface temperature has been above average nearly every day this year so far. All five Great Lakes are heating up.
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Chicago reveals climate havens don’t exist — they must be created
-Extreme heat and precipitation events are becoming more frequent and intense in Chicago. It’s the city’s preparation efforts that will determine climate resiliency.
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South Shore residents are fed up with garbage on their streets
-The community has more reports of sanitation code violations than any South Side neighborhood.
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Chicago teachers demand climate solutions in their next contract
-“That contract means nothing if our Earth is on fire.”
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In Chicago, one neighborhood is fighting gentrification and climate change at the same time
-The secret to success? Build affordable housing next to transit.
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Faced with COVID-era civil rights complaints, Chicago commits to environmental justice
-Chicago is joining a nationwide trend of large cities incorporating equity or justice goals into preparing for climate change’s impact on public health.
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Chicago could be first major Midwestern city to ban gas in new construction
-Buildings are Chicago’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, but efforts to decarbonize them are facing union opposition.
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Army Corps plans $1 billion barricade to deter invasive carp at Illinois and Des Plaines Rivers
-Invasive carp could threaten the $7 billion recreation and commercial fishing industry around the Great Lakes.
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In Chicago, adapting electric buses to winter’s challenges
-Capital City Transit has ordered seven electric buses to replace diesel models from 2010, said the operations superintendent.