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Mining, transporting, refining and disposing of spent fuel from nuclear plants produces huge amounts of carbon that goes into the air we breathe, a letter writer says.
Striking steelworkers were clubbed, gassed and shot dead while marching across a prairie to the Republic Steel Mill on Chicago's Southeast Side in what became forever known as the Memorial
Eighty-five years later, the dead are still remembered.
I hope Sen. Durbin changes his mind about promoting nuclear energy. The real carbon-free sources of electricity are wind and solar.
Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times I must take exception to your Monday editorial of Jan. 11 (“ The editorial references House Bill 2267, which would establish a representative elected school board in Chicago, and HB 2275 — passed on Monday afternoon — which would restore full bargaining rights to the Chicago Teachers Union. In the editorial, you ask, “What exactly is the rush?” My question is, why has it taken so long? Chicago has never had an elected school board. It has always been under the direct or indirect control of the mayor. Supposedly, this was to prevent the board from being...