CHICAGO (CBS/WBBM) — The Chicago River is being declared one of the nation's most endangered waterways. As CBS 2's Kris Habermehl and WBBM Newsradio 780's Bob Conway report, the conservation group ...
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The Chicago River has a complicated history. For more than a century, it absorbed factory waste, raw sewage, and runoff from ...
The North Side is home to many of Chicago's popular tourist attractions, including The Magnificent Mile, as well as many of ...
The Chicago River was once a heavily polluted mess, a source of deadly diseases like cholera and typhoid fever. The waterway was so dirty that engineers famously reversed its direction in 1900 so it ...
The Chicago Engineer District has taken a critical step toward large-scale ecosystem restoration of the Chicago Area ...
The annual Chicago River dye took place Saturday morning, turning one of the city's most iconic landmarks bright green to celebrate the St. Patrick's Day holiday. Though thousands flocked to the ...
Restoring neglected waterways of the Southeast Side are major challenge. For 70 years, from 1900 to 1970, the Calumet River on Chicago’s Southeast Side provided the cooling water, waste disposal, and ...
Every March, the Chicago River turns green. Not just a little green, but bright, can’t-miss-it-from-the-bridge green. Crowds line the riverwalk, phones pop up, and in minutes, the water changes color ...