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ChicagoClimate ChangeDrinking WaterFeature HomepageIllinoisLake MichiganLatest NewsNewsScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration EffortsWisconsinJoliet, Illinois, Plans to Source Its Future Drinking Water From Lake Michigan. Will Other Cities Follow?
-As aquifers dry up, some Midwest communities are looking to the region’s greatest natural resources for a solution.
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AuthorsChicagoFeature HomepageFeature-ChicagoFish, Birds and AnimalsIllinoisKathy JohnsonLatest NewsNewsResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchHow do fish survive in large urban waterways, like the Chicago River?
-The Chicago River’s hardened shorelines, stormwater pollution events and limited habitat would seem inhospitable to fish. Yet, native species are finding ways to call the city home.
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ChicagoClimate ChangeFeature HomepageFeature-ChicagoIllinoisLake MichiganLatest NewsNewsScience, Technology, ResearchChicago’s beach season is over … or is it? Lake Michigan temps are breaking records.
-Lake Michigan’s surface temperature has been above average nearly every day this year so far. All five Great Lakes are heating up.
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ChicagoClimate ChangeFeature HomepageFeature-ChicagoIllinoisLake MichiganLatest NewsNewsScience, Technology, ResearchChicago reveals climate havens don’t exist — they must be created
-Extreme heat and precipitation events are becoming more frequent and intense in Chicago. It’s the city’s preparation efforts that will determine climate resiliency.
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South Shore residents are fed up with garbage on their streets
-The community has more reports of sanitation code violations than any South Side neighborhood.
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AdvocacyChicagoClimate ChangeEquity and Environmental JusticeFeature HomepageFeature-ChicagoIllinoisLatest NewsNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeScience, Technology, ResearchChicago teachers demand climate solutions in their next contract
-“That contract means nothing if our Earth is on fire.”
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AuthorsCharles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipChicagoFeature HomepageGary WilsonGreat Lakes News CollaborativeIllinoisLatest NewsNewsWater Quality and Restoration EffortsChicago groups spotlight the city’s water “abundance,” focus on innovation, collaboration as key to its future
-“Innovation is integral to delivering on all of our water priorities,” says top executive. What about conservation?
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ChicagoEquity and Environmental JusticeFeature HomepageFeature-ChicagoIllinoisLatest NewsNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeIn Chicago, one neighborhood is fighting gentrification and climate change at the same time
-The secret to success? Build affordable housing next to transit.
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ChicagoEquity and Environmental JusticeFeature-ChicagoIllinoisLatest NewsNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeFaced with COVID-era civil rights complaints, Chicago commits to environmental justice
-Chicago is joining a nationwide trend of large cities incorporating equity or justice goals into preparing for climate change’s impact on public health.
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AuthorsCharles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipChicagoFeature HomepageGary WilsonGLNCGreat Lakes News CollaborativeIllinoisLatest NewsNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeWater Quality and Restoration EffortsStudy calls for EPA to include human well-being in Great Lakes restoration program
-Historically restoration work focused on measurable ecological outcomes. Researchers make the case to codify human well-being into the process.
