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Home » Calumet River

Tag: Calumet River

Posted inBlogs

East Side residents enraged by manganese pollution tear into city and federal officials

by Maya Dukmasova May 11, 2018August 18, 2021

“Half-assed everything, that’s what we get.”

Posted inBlogs

Dangerous levels of heavy metals found at homes near industrial storage facility

by Maya Dukmasova May 4, 2018August 18, 2021

Samples in four homes showed manganese concentrations beyond the Environmental Protection Agency’s standards for Superfund sites.

Posted inArts & Culture

Rahm’s Riverwalk is still a work in progress

by Deanna Isaacs May 18, 2016August 18, 2021

Dining, drinks, and music return to the riverfront—but the big news is improvements to the water.

Posted inBlogs

A bus tour stops by polluted Altgeld Gardens

by Robin Amer September 4, 2015August 18, 2021

For more than 30 years, residents of the south-side housing project—called the “toxic doughnut”—have been fighting for environmental justice.

Coal-fired power plant, originally designed as a nuclear plant, A cooling tower looms over a home in Michigan City.
Posted inNews & Politics

Toxic Tour of Northwest Indiana

by Kari Lydersen February 3, 2011August 19, 2021

Photography by Lloyd DeGrane. Text by Kari Lydersen.

Posted inBlogs

The Calumet River Amazon

by Cliff Doerksen December 29, 2009August 19, 2021

No woman is an island, but Lilian Stevens came close

M&M Windjammer Marina, owned by Mike Olsen (pictured)
Posted inNews & Politics

Clout on the Calumet River

by Ben Joravsky October 29, 2009August 19, 2021

Marina owner Mike Olsen has reason to fear the city will force him out of business to the benefit of his competition.

Posted inBlogs

What comes first, the green or the jobs?

by Mick Dumke April 7, 2009August 19, 2021

Alderman John Pope, who works on the southeast side, the heart of old industrial Chicago, says he’s interested in attracting green jobs. But not-quite-green jobs sound pretty good too.

Posted inArts & Culture

Chi Lives: little shop of oysters

by Ted Kleine December 17, 1998August 20, 2021

Calumet Fisheries, take-out shack at the foot of the 95th Street bridge

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