BREAKING: Body camera footage obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times shows the scene after an ICE agent fatally shot Silverio Villegas González. The ICE agent said his injuries were "nothing major," video shows, but DHS reported the agent was “seriously injured.” trib.al/Utk0Szp

PHOTOS: Protesters demonstrate at Broadview ICE facility in spite of more pepper balls, rubber rounds READ MORE HERE: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Midwest Generation is seeking city permission to tear down 13 structures, including storage tanks and silos, around the Fisk power plant. A virtual community meeting will be held Sept. 24 to discuss the “environmentally complex” demolition. trib.al/ZmdK2RP

The Chicago Architecture Center revealed this year’s Open House Chicago sites on Wednesday, and it includes 30 new spots on a list of more than 200.

Elmwood Park's fire chief Michael Terzo resigned after being charged with unlawful restraint, battery, and property damage following an incident where he allegedly tried to lock a tavern employee in a beer cooler and assaulted him.

Man fatally shot by ICE in Franklin Park had just dropped off his child at school, Rep. Delia Ramirez says chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/09...

Hey Chicagoans. You may be able to see neighborhood-level air pollution measurements in the coming months after the city put up 277 sensors. chicago.suntimes.com/environment/...

Coal and solar both grew in their shares of the U.S. electricity market. Here’s a breakdown by state and a look at how other power sources fared.

Iowa residents say a House bill allowing agricultural pollution would be yet another blow to a state already facing a dire water crisis.

Following a more than yearlong battle at nearby Gompers Park, city officials say they will begin to clear a camp at Legion Park along the river Tuesday.

Opinion: Chicago-area Latino businesses are particularly affected by threats of mass deportation. Foot traffic has significantly dropped in Little Village — home to what is normally the city’s second-highest grossing retail strip after Michigan Avenue. trib.al/IL5SgTr

With over 50 featured artists, the inaugural Sound & Gravity festival plays out over five days at seven venues this week.

About 200 demonstrators staged a sit-in, blocking apparent ICE agents from coming in and out of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency’s Broadview processing center Friday.

“I love the smell of deportations in the morning,” President Donald Trump has posted on Truth Social, threatening Chicago would “find out why it’s called the Department of War.”

Chicago has the highest number of lead water service lines in the nation. WBEZ, Grist and Inside Climate News analyzed city data that allows Chicago’s residents to see where the problem is most acute — and how it intersects with poverty and race. trib.al/spPxHg5

Super-emissions of the climate super-pollutant methane endanger not just the climate but also human health. A new tool maps the path and likely risks posed by the highly toxic chemicals that accompany those emissions.

More than 180 FEMA employees wrote to Congress today warning that the Trump admin has gutted disaster response efforts during hurricane season. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Customers of ComEd and Ameren Illinois have lost more than $2 billion over the past 10 years to alternative electricity suppliers, according to an analysis of state data by the nonprofit Citizens Utility Board.

The rapid growth of data centers is raising a new concern: Depletion of drinking water supplies across the Midwest. trib.al/dc3yLLp

The Trump administration’s USDA has decided to nix funding for a popular renewable energy program that helps farmers power their operations, save money and lower greenhouse gas emissions.

Chicago busca tener la mayor cantidad de sensores de contaminación del aire en Estados Unidos chicago.suntimes.com/la-voz/2025/...

“Nothing that the states or local governments can do will stop ICE from carrying out its operations,” says Fred Tsao, senior policy counsel at Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. trib.al/JwmMuSB

Trump elimina contratos sindicales para trabajadores de la EPA en Chicago chicago.suntimes.com/la-voz/2025/...

Chicago is racing to put up 277 air-pollution sensors by the end of summer as city officials try to get a handle on the poor air quality that severely affects the polluted Far South Side, Southwest Side and West Side neighborhoods. trib.al/2zr9ghn

Trump killed union contracts for Chicago EPA workers on Tuesday. This is allowed, the president declared, because agencies, such as the EPA play a role in national security. Critics say the move is no more than union busting.

This isn’t your average bedspread. Every square is a representation of someone who is — or used to be — locked up inside an Illinois prison. Advocates and family members of people in prison hope their quilt humanizes and commemorates their loved ones. trib.al/GPtO2G7

I've spent the past several years covering two federal civil rights complaints in Chicago. Both affect vulnerable people and communities. Yesterday, Trump upended both of them, saying they aren't "real concerns." chicago.suntimes.com/environment/...

The EPA’s Solar for All program may be in the Trump administration’s crosshairs. Here’s who would get hurt.

BREAKING NEWS: Trump reverses two big federal discrimination cases in Chicago. chicago.suntimes.com/environment/...

NEW: Former Ald. Walter Burnett (27th Ward) will collect an annual city taxpayer-funded pension of $120,608 — and could also earn more than $310,000 at the same time as head of the Chicago Housing Authority, according to records obtained by @wttw.bsky.social, I report with @jaredrutecki.bsky.social

Acusan al Departamento de Vivienda de poner en peligro a las comunidades de Chicago chicago.suntimes.com/la-voz/2025/...

The NAACP and dozens of civil rights and housing advocates accuse Trump's HUD of harming Chicago communities. chicago.suntimes.com/environment/...

DuSable Lake Shore Drive could be sunken and capped-over to improve pedestrian access between Buckingham Fountain and the lake under the Grant Park Framework Plan now being developed. trib.al/xhxuIrZ

And if you are in the Chicago area, tune into WBEZ's Reset at noon to hear more about our reporting @chicago.suntimes.com @wbez.org

New Jersey's largest-ever settlement for “forever chemicals,” holds DuPont accountable for contamination at four sites and ensures taxpayers won't be left with the cleanup bill. insideclimatenews.org/news/0408202...

When they were signed into law in 2019, New York’s climate targets were ambitious. Now, it seems, they were also unrealistic. The people who pay the price are often the low-income New Yorkers who struggle to afford the state’s high utility bills.

New Michigan data center plans are on the verge of triggering an “offramp” in the state’s nation-leading climate laws that would effectively halt the shift to renewables less than two years after the plans were approved.

“I think the best word is validation”: Residents react to research showing immediate health improvements after the closure of a coal processing plant.

The largest wildfire in the country is raging in Grand Canyon National Park. The park’s North Rim will now be closed for the rest of the year.

How are data centers and AI driving up your electric bills? I went on @wbez.org Reset to explain. www.wbez.org/reset-with-s...

Facturas de ComEd se mantendrán altas porque la inteligencia artificial y centros de datos drenan la energía chicago.suntimes.com/la-voz/2025/...

ComEd electric customers stung by a recent price hike that led to soaring electric bills are unlikely to see any relief next year. https://trib.al/thSrYIt

The demolition of the Damen Silos is underway and moving quickly. The smaller buildings surrounding the massive structures near South Damen Avenue along the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal are already torn down and destruction of the silos has begun.

JUST IN: President Donald Trump has upended two yearslong investigations into civil rights violations in Chicago. ProPublica reported Friday that the two Chicago cases are among seven that the Trump administration is dismissing.

The “Between Sky and Sea” exhibit of the late Palestinian photojournalist and filmmaker Ismail Abu Hatab will be showcased at the Walls Turned Sideways gallery from Thursday through Aug. 23. Abu Hatab was killed in an Israeli airstrike on June 30.

Jeff Tweedy is releasing a 30-song album and playing ‪@saltshedchicago.bsky.social‬ in November. Tickets on sale now. ‪ alltheyoungpunks.com/2025/07/16/j...

Saturday marks the 30th anniversary of the deadly Chicago heat wave that killed more than 700 people. The city still has work to do to protect its residents. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

Inspectors say an odor plaguing the South Side "could best be described as rotting fish/decay of flesh ... [that] made us not want to breathe and made us nauseous." Infuriated neighbors of Pullman Innovations' plant have put up with it for years. https://trib.al/irsiwW9