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Chicago play provides a portal to process climate anxiety
Chicago Sun Times - Illinois
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The friendship between a corporate, ladder-climbing millennial and an immigrant who left her home country because of flooding, provide insight into how we live with the existential threat of climate change in the day-to-day.
Chicago Fire FC addresses incident in stands involving fan, security guards
NBC 5 Chicago - Illinois
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The Chicago Fire football club emphasized its commitment to safety following an incident involving a fan and employees of a private security firm during a recent game at Soldier Field. Footage widely circulating on social media showed several...
Chicago’s Plan to Replace Lead Pipes Puts It 30 Years Behind the Federal Deadline
Inside Climate News
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June 26, 2025
This story is a partnership between Inside Climate News, Grist and WBEZ. Growing up in Chicago, Chakena D. Perry knew not to trust the water coming out of her tap. “It was just one of these unspoken truths within households like mine—low-income,...
Here’s how to make your demands heard this 2026 Chicago budget season
The TRiiBE - Illinois
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July 2, 2025
For example, the number of youth summer jobs increased from 28,000 in 2024 to 29,000 in 2025 due to the city dedicating $50 million towards it in the 2025 budget. Johnson attended the roundtable. During his remarks, he explained how vital resident...
California misleadingly markets farm-generated methane as environmentally friendly—a falsehood now exported nationwide
Prism
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July 2, 2025
Take California’s Highway 5 two hours north of Los Angeles and veer right onto Highway 99. In 50 miles, you’ll reach Pixley, a small town of about 4,000 with one doctor’s office, no grocery store, and nearly 140,000 bovine neighbors. It’s only...
National TV news largely failed to connect the record-breaking eastern U.S. heat dome to climate change
Media Matters For America
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Media Matters searched transcripts in the SnapStream video database for all original episodes of ABC’s Good Morning America and World News Tonight, CBS’ Mornings and Evening News, and NBC’s Today and Nightly News, as well as all original...
Illinois gas tax increases to 48.3 cents July 1
The Center Square
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June 26, 2025
(The Center Square) – Illinois drivers face another gas tax hike July 1, despite already paying the nation's second-highest rates. Starting July 1, Illinois drivers will see the state gas tax rise to 48.3 cents per gallon—up 1.3 cents from last...
Youth compete in statewide fishing tournament organized by Illinois 4-H
Chambana Sun - Illinois
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July 1, 2025
Angie Barnard Executive Director at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Official websiteAngie Barnard Executive Director at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Official website Champaign, Ill. – The Illinois 4-H Hooks Us Together...
Suburbs lead the way: Chicago’s medical office growth shifts outside the urban core
REJournals
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July 2, 2025
Investors and developers are finding renewed opportunity in the Chicago region’s suburban medical office market, where demographic trends and delivery models are converging to reshape healthcare real estate. Silver Cross Medical Pavilion D in New...
The Rodents of Chicago Are Evolving in Real Time
Prevention
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July 2, 2025
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Urbanization has had visible morphological effects on chipmunks and voles in the Chicago metro area. While both chipmunks and voles have experienced changes to their skulls in response to urban...
Chicago residents risk daily lead exposure from toxic pipes. Replacing them will take decades.
Grist Magazine
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June 26, 2025
This story is a partnership between Grist, Inside Climate News, and WBEZ, a public radio station serving the Chicago metropolitan region. This coverage is made possible through an ongoing partnership between Grist and WBEZ. Growing up in Chicago,...
Illinois Announces Multi-Phase Plan for Memorial Stadium Enhancements
Vermilion County First - Illinois
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THE FOLLOWING IS A U OF I ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT RELEASE CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Over the next two seasons, all 60,670 fans attending Fighting Illini football games at Memorial Stadium will see major upgrades to their gameday experience. As part of...
Bret Bielema, Illinois football could overlook sneaky Big Ten opponent
Sporting News
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July 2, 2025
With roughly seven weeks until the college football season gets underway, a much-talked-about Illinois football offseason will finally halt before the real work officially begins. Dubbed by some as "next year's Indiana," Illinois doesn't play a...
Extreme Heat Warning: 200 Million Will Not Only Feel Sweltering Temps, These Natural Disasters Are Possible
International Business Times - United Kingdom
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June 20, 2025
A scorching heat wave is gripping the United States, affecting over 200 million people from the Central Plains to the Northeast with dangerously high temperatures and humidity recorded on 20 June 2025. Beyond sweltering conditions, the extreme...
‘Under-the-radar’ Big Ten game for Illinois, Bret Bielema could define season, per insider
BVM Sports
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July 2, 2025
As the college football season approaches, Illinois football garners attention for its potential resurgence under coach Bret Bielema. With a favorable schedule, the Illini's matchup against USC on September 27 stands out as a pivotal game that...
VIDEO: Chicago Named Worst U.S. City for Bedbugs Fifth Year in a Row
Breitbart
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July 1, 2025
Chicago has once again been named the most bedbug-infested city in the United States, the news coming as it also grapples with a rat problem. Orkin’s annual rankings showed that Chicago has the worst bedbug problem in America, NBC Chicago reported...
New laws take effect in Illinois covering diverse sectors
DuPage Policy Journal - Illinois
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July 1, 2025
Starting July 1, a series of new laws will come into effect across Illinois. These measures address various sectors including human rights, education, health care, insurance, and the judiciary. The state budget for Fiscal Year 2025–2026 is set at...
An Important Archive of Congressionally-Mandated Climate Change Reports Just Went Dark
Inside Climate News
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July 1, 2025
On Monday, the website for the federal government’s 35-year old Global Change Research Program—an entity that is required to release periodic reports concerning the environmental change in the Earth’s climate—went dark. The program is part of an...
How This Chicago Private Equity Firm Scored The Biggest Exit Of 2025
Forbes
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Co-CEOs Collin Roche (left) and Dean Mihas (right) are leading the second generation in charge of 45-year-old private equity firm GTCR. GTCR While private equity managers hoping for a dealmaking bonanza under Donald Trump’s administration have...
New charging benches at Northern Illinois University utilize solar energy
WIFR - Illinois
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July 1, 2025
DEKALB, Ill. (WIFR) - Northern Illinois University students now have a convenient and environmentally friendly way to charge electronic devices on campus. Bluebolt, a division of Blue Outdoor which sells outdoor advertising, installed four of its...