Tucked inside the Altgeld Gardens public housing project on Chicago’s far South Side, there’s a yellow brick wall filled with hundreds of names. It stands as a memorial to the friends and family ...

Wildlife protection, national parks policy, forest management, air and water pollution, wetlands or shoreline preservation and waste treatment and disposal are all environmental issues.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Pollution problems in certain Chicago neighborhoods are prompting the city to take a new approach to how it addresses environmental concerns. The changes come on the heels of a ...

Elizabeth Poole and her new team will begin their work by focusing on lead-based paint hazards as they build out the new ...

For South Side Environmental Justice Advocates, the Fight for the Hazel M. Johnson Ordinance is a Fight for their Home Myrna Salgado-Romo was already thinking about her next steps when she left high ...

Cheryl Johnson (foreground) still lauds her mother Hazel and the work that she put in on environmental issues in Chicago. Hazel Johnson died in 2011 after decades of activism. In Chicago ...

Pat Nabong / Sun-Times file Share The city of Chicago is violating the civil ... areas that already are overwhelmed with environmental and health issues, federal officials have found after a ...

An environmental justice project manager will oversee this process. “Chicago is listening to the long-standing concerns voiced by environmental justice organizations and community members who ...

The Chicago Department of The Environment is keeping a close eye ... which worsens air quality problems in the city." ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has devised a strategy to combat environmental racism in the wake of last year’s federal government decision that the city violated residents’ civil rights by ...

Federal workers braved frigid temperatures in Chicago Tuesday to ... members about drinking water issues, soil contamination, and other possible environmental problems. But on Friday, McCranie's ...