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The Thornton Reservoir is known far and wide for providing many locals, and some passersby, with a lingering smell of sewage. “I can smell it going down I-80,” said Thornton Village Administrator Doug Beckman of the Deep Tunnel reservoir, which has been online since late 2015. But Beckman said the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago is now taking a proactive approach to ...

“I didn’t believe we should be giving a contract to a firm with a history of fraud,” says the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District’s Cameron Davis, whose agency hired Joel Kennedy Constructing Corp.

The city of Chicago banned the construction company, Joel Kennedy Constructing Corp., from ever being allowed to work on...city contracts.

Weeks after the record-setting storm, Chicagoans in the affected areas continue to grapple with flooded basements, standing water, waterlogged appliances and growing mold and mildew.

The $1.3 billion agency responsible for treating wastewater and providing stormwater management for Chicago and over 100 Cook County communities is on the ballot next Tuesday with four open commissioner seats.

Tuesdays rezoning decision by Schaumburg trustees will be the final opportunity for nearby residents of Roselle and unincorporated Schaumburg Township to weigh in on Itasca-based Experior Transports plans to build a new trucking headquarters on 55 acres in the villages southwest corner.