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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

Environmental hazards mark the landscape of Chicago's Southeast Side ... Air pollution is linked to asthma and other lung problems, smaller birth weights and premature births.

Chicago faces no shortage of environmental issues. Lead in drinking water. Communities beset by pollutants. A transition to renewable energy. Local impacts of climate change. Sewer overflows that ...

Environmental justice, born in Chicago decades ago ... on drinking water protections as well as hazardous waste and other problems. “Environmental justice simply means ensuring the communities ...

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 ...

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 ...