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An Illinois State Trooper who was shot Friday afternoon on the Dan Ryan Expressway in Chicago has died, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s...

WHIZ News Hydrant flushing on Thursday & Friday ZANESVILLE, Ohio–The City of Zanesville’s Water Division will continue flushing hydrants on Thursday and Friday. On Thursday, crews will be flushing hydrants within the general area of Cliffwood Avenue, Pine Street, West Main Street, Carey Street, Pershing Road , and all side streets. On Friday, crews will be flushing hydrants within the general area of Brighton Blvd, Pershing Road, Dryden Road, Ohio Street, and all side streets. Flushing will...

Pat Nabong/Sun-Times A sustained protest by community activists, a civil rights investigation and data showing the Southeast Side is one of the most polluted areas in the country drew President Joe Biden’s Administration into a city permitting controversy involving the relocation of car-shredder General Iron. In an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times Thursday, Michael Regan, the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency, said the planned move of the scrap-metal shredding operation t...

McKinley Park residents love their namesake park and affordable neighborhood. But they are fighting the city over an asphalt plant they say is ruining its charm. Nausheen Husain, Chicago Tribune © Jose M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune Theresa McNamara, chair of the Southwest Environmental Alliance, adjusts an effigy of Ald. George Cardenas, 12th, before a protest across the street from the MAT Asphalt plant in Chicagos McKinley Park, May 15, 2021. Some mornings, the smell seeping in...

Many Chicagoans live next door to a health threat. In a new series on pollution, the Tribune is sharing their stories.

It was a somber scene in Decatur this afternoon at the funeral of Champaign Police Officer Chris Oberheim.

A Champaign Police Department car draped in black ribbon sits in front of Maranatha Assembly of God in Decatur where the funeral is being held for Decatur native Chris Oberheim.

Funds approved for playground equipment, gas tax paving projects announced.

Provided/Fitzgerald A proposed low-income housing project next to a controversial McKinley Park asphalt plant moved closer to getting city approval even as some of Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s top advisers have opposed it. At the urging of Ald. George Cardenas (12th), the City Council’s zoning committee voted 11-3 to approve a restoration project of two historic buildings, including one for low-income residential, on Pershing Road across from McKinley Park. The two buildings were built over a cen...

The town’s reaction to Oberheim’s death and his family made an impression on the Bachmans. “Something like this affects everybody,” Ted Bachman said. Cari Loudenburg brought two of her children, Asher, 11, and Ellasyn, 14, to a spot along Market Street in Monticello. They stood waiting for the funeral procession holding a blue and black striped Thin Blue Line flag. “My husband is a police officer in Bloomington,” Cari Loudenburg said as she fought back tears. â€�...