Jordan Foley ticks off what he didn’t have when he started an intensive 13-week solar job training program on the West Side: money, a bed, clothes, food. The fear that the program wouldn’t be able to ...

Today, Honorable is ready to start a new chapter, having graduated with honors last week from a clean energy workforce training program at Richland Community College, located in the Central Illinois ...

Shawn Honorable graduated with honors last week from Richland Community College’s clean energy workforce training program in Decatur, Illinois, part of a network of hubs funded by the state’s 2021 ...

DANVILLE, Illinois (AP) — On the south side of Chicago, students learn to work on Rivian electric pickup trucks and SUVs through a new technician program at Olive-Harvey College. About 150 miles (240 ...

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When the Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture & the Environment in Freeport unveiled its Smith Center for Education & Research last year, it was a showcase of passive house construction designed to be ...

CHICAGO (CBS) – Clean energy is an all-encompassing term for solar panels, electric vehicles, wind turbines and more. The buzzword often comes up in discussions about the future. CBS 2's Lauren ...

The president of ComEd, governor of Illinois, chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission, director of Region 1 Planning, Rockford's mayor and other statewide and regional leaders gathered in ...

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