Geraldw Adelmann News Today

The Damen Silos property, which is right on the river, should have been part of a master plan focused on helping to redevelop the land along the Chicago River in a way most beneficial to city residents.

Op-Ed: In Chicago, a partnership between several city agencies and nonprofits is remaking schools' green spaces to be more vibrant and climate-resilient. Here's how other cities can do the same. 

AP Photos For many Chicagoans, the revival this week of the nearly 60-year-old tradition of Plumbers Union Local 130 dyeing the Chicago River green for St. Patrick’s Day — a surprise event after it first was canceled by the city — was a welcome sign that things are returning to normal. However, was dyeing the river green ever “normal” to begin with? When this tradition began in 1962, the Chicago River, after a century of horrific environmental abuse, was thought of as more a quasi-se...