Trump’s love affair with coal can’t compete with market realities
Surrounded by coal miners, President Donald Trump signed an executive order vowing to roll back his predecessor’s policies limiting lung-damaging, ...
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Chicago Palestine Film Festival looks beyond war to show art, joy
At a time when Palestinian existence and resilience are under a microscope, the Chicago Palestine Film Festival is spotlighting all ...
Senate President Don Harmon’s questionable fundraising haul
Illinois Democratic Senate President Don Harmon improperly accepted $4 million more in political contributions than allowed under campaign donation laws ...
Aurora Mayor-elect Laesch says City of Lights Center dead
Aurora Mayor-elect John Laesch told The Beacon-News in a recent interview that he has no intention of pursuing the City ...
Great Lakes states likely to suffer from EPA cuts
Dirty air remains a chronic problem in the Chicago area.Shortly before President Joe Biden left office, the U.S. Environmental Protection ...
Man in limbo after brother from Venezuela is detained
For the past year, three days a week for four hours, Alfredo Pacheco, 37, has been undergoing dialysis. Most days, ...
Shopping tours in New York City help move vintage fashion forward
In the fashion archives at New York Vintage, a swanky vintage couture shop in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, I tried on ...
In Chicago, U.S. EPA workers protest Trump rollbacks
A crowd of more than 100 people, including workers from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, rallied Tuesday outside its regional ...
Archdiocese alleges bogus claims against notorious priest
A West Side man was talking to his imprisoned cousin in 2013 when he allegedly floated the idea of adding ...
CTU, SEIU conflict escalates with allegations of ‘bullying’
The leader of a local chapter of the Service Employees International Union on Monday issued a fiery internal message to ...
Elon Musk, Gov. JB Pritzker spending in Wisconsin Supreme Court race
When the balance of power on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court was on the line two years ago, the race smashed national ...
Efforts made to save crumbling New Salem State Lincoln Site
In 1831, Abraham Lincoln arrived at the New Salem grist mill along the Sangamon River aboard a flatboat that was ...
‘Dilla’ Thomas settling in at DuSable Museum after ComEd laid him off
When Shermann “Dilla” Thomas was suddenly let go from a job at ComEd in September after 13 years, he was ...
Tesla used car market slumping in Chicago
With anecdotes of owners trading in their Teslas amid backlash over CEO Elon Musk’s unelected role as agency dismantler-in-chief for ...
Supreme Court tosses convictions for Patrick Daley Thompson
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday overturned convictions on two counts in the case against former Chicago Ald. Patrick Daley ...
Metra agreed to pay lobbyist as much as $4.65M as agency braces for budget crisis
Metra agreed to pay its lobbyist as much as $4.65 million in part for work related to a looming transit ...
Northwestern Medicine to try robotic device to draw blood
The practice of drawing blood has changed very little over the decades. It looks about the same now as it ...
State legislators look to establish rules for artificial intelligence
SPRINGFIELD — About a year and a half ago, Crystal Lake South High School math teacher Sarah Murmann grew concerned ...
Stricter truck-pollution rule would help Chicago, study shows
Switching to stricter California-style limits on truck emissions would prevent 500 deaths per year in the greater Chicago region by ...
Immigrants scramble as Illinois considers health insurance cuts
Despite being born with malformed limbs and later giving birth to four children, Francisca avoided going to the doctor as ...
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