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Naperville, St. Charles, Winnetka and dozens of other communities urged to double down on coal
As President Joe Biden pushes to accelerate the nation’s transition to clean energy, three Chicago suburbs and more than two dozen other Illinois communities are mulling plans to double down on lung-damaging, climate-changing coal. Naperville, St. Charles, Winnetka and 29 downstate municipalities are investors in the Prairie State Generating Station, a massive coal-fired power plant in ...
Key Outcomes from Hickory Hills City Council Meeting: New Police Promotions and Summer Committee Cancellations
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Celebrating 15 Years of Safety: Cicero's Parent Patrol Honored for Dedicated Service
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IL City Bans Booze Sales After Midnight, Could Others Follow?
A city in Illinois is starting to feel a lot like the movie, "Footloose," by banning any liquor sales after midnight. Cicero Bans Any Kind Of Liquor Sales After Midnight. It seems weird in this day and age to have any sort of ban on liquor sales. In some places like a casino, you can purchase booze 24 hours a day and seven days a week. You can even purchase drinks in bars in to-go cups to take with you.
Illinois Zoo Welcomes Koalas For 1st Time In 90-Year History
Did you know a famed and historic Illinois zoo is finally getting koalas?. I guess that, for all the times that I have been to the Brookfield Zoo, which is numerous, I never considered that they have zero koalas. Well, that all changes today because, for the 1st Time in...
Cook County Plans To Replace Juvenile Detention Center With Smaller ‘Centers Of Care’
NEAR WEST SIDE — Cook County officials plan to drastically reduce the size of the Juvenile Temporary Detention Center, the nation’s largest juvenile jail, long criticized for its inhumane treatment and ineffective care of vulnerable kids, and replace it with community-based treatment centers. The plans, which have the...
Severe weather leads to blowing dust, power outages in Chicago area as deadly tornadoes strike Iowa
A large system of severe weather that brought deadly tornadoes to Iowa led to dust storms and power outages in the Chicago area, following a day of near record-high temperatures. Officials in Iowa confirmed multiple fatalities from a tornado with "at least a dozen injuries," with a storm upending the...
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