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Posted inChicago, Climate Change, Feature-Chicago, Featured, Illinois, Lake Michigan, Latest News, News, Region, Science, Technology, Research

Chicago’s beach season is over … or is it? Lake Michigan temps are breaking records.

by WBEZ September 27, 2024November 8, 2025
Posted inChicago, Climate Change, Feature-Chicago, Featured, Illinois, Lake Michigan, Latest News, News, Region, Science, Technology, Research

Chicago reveals climate havens don’t exist — they must be created

by Mia Litzenberg, Great Lakes Now September 20, 2024November 8, 2025
Posted inChicago, Feature-Chicago, Featured, Illinois, Industry, Energy, Economic Development, Latest News, News, Region

South Shore residents are fed up with garbage on their streets

by WBEZ August 12, 2024November 8, 2025
Posted inAdvocacy, Chicago, Climate Change, Equity and Environmental Justice, Feature-Chicago, Featured, Illinois, Latest News, News, Politics, Policy, Environmental Justice, Region, Science, Technology, Research

Chicago teachers demand climate solutions in their next contract

by Grist August 9, 2024November 8, 2025
Posted inAbout Great Lakes Now, Authors, Chicago, Featured, Gary Wilson, Great Lakes News Collaborative, Guest Article, Illinois, Latest News, News, Region, Water Quality and Restoration Efforts, Who We Are and What We Do

Chicago groups spotlight the city’s water “abundance,” focus on innovation, collaboration as key to its future

by Gary Wilson, Great Lakes Now May 15, 2024
Posted inChicago, Equity and Environmental Justice, Feature-Chicago, Featured, Illinois, Latest News, News, Politics, Policy, Environmental Justice, Region

In Chicago, one neighborhood is fighting gentrification and climate change at the same time

by Grist April 11, 2024
Posted inChicago, Equity and Environmental Justice, Feature-Chicago, Illinois, Latest News, News, Politics, Policy, Environmental Justice, Region

Faced with COVID-era civil rights complaints, Chicago commits to environmental justice

by Great Lakes Echo February 14, 2024November 8, 2025
Posted inAbout Great Lakes Now, Authors, Chicago, Featured, Gary Wilson, GLNC, Great Lakes News Collaborative, Guest Article, Illinois, Latest News, News, Politics, Policy, Environmental Justice, Region, Water Quality and Restoration Efforts, Who We Are and What We Do

Study calls for EPA to include human well-being in Great Lakes restoration program

by Gary Wilson, Great Lakes Now February 6, 2024
Posted inChicago, Feature-Chicago, Featured, Illinois, Latest News, News, Region

Chicago could be first major Midwestern city to ban gas in new construction

by Grist January 31, 2024
Posted inChicago, Feature-Chicago, Featured, Illinois, Latest News, News, Region, Water Quality and Restoration Efforts

Army Corps plans $1 billion barricade to deter invasive carp at Illinois and Des Plaines Rivers

by WBEZ January 24, 2024

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