Fort Wayne has received a $1 million grant from the Indiana Brownfields Program to support cleanup efforts at the former ...

Fort Wayne is getting a financial boost toward cleaning up the North River property. Mayor Sharon Tucker today announced the ...

Illinois is getting set to close on property that officials want to buy to keep invasive carp from reaching the Great Lakes ...

A Chicago police officer shot a person who had turned his gun on officers late Saturday night in Austin on the city’s West Side, according to a preliminary investigation by the ...

Thirty-three years later, Chicago River cleanup reveals healthier water, fewer bags of trash, and more wildlife.

Chicago River Cleanup event was held Saturday morning and this year’s event attracted the most volunteers ever.

Organizers said nearly 3,000 volunteers – including families, community groups, and corporate teams – fanned out along the ...

A Chicago-born cardinal walks into a conclave. The rest of the joke tells itself. In the breathless day since Pope Leo XIV’s ...

Despite more than $4 billion in federal investment to restore the Great Lakes and its toxic sites since 2010, the Detroit ...

Plans for a park honoring Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, Chicago's first non-native settler, took a step forward this month.

The Earth Day Charles River Cleanup, hosted annually since 1999, is one of the largest river cleanups in the county. As a part of the American Rivers’ National River Cleanup initiative, it aims to get ...