Also, the city of Chicago has announced that its buildings will be entirely powered by renewable energy by 2025.
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Rahm Emanuel had ‘frank, direct, and honest’ meeting with Donald Trump, and other Chicago news
Also, Alderman Anthony Beale is proposing major reforms to the honorary street-sign program.
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A Thanksgiving conversation that isn’t about Donald Trump
A guide to surviving the holiday
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Illinois coal’s last stand
Even as people bemoan its environmental and health effects, the prospect of its demise sparks fear and nostalgia.
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Hot air at City Hall
The City Council’s energy and environment committee approved legislation Tuesday designed to make Chicago’s air cleaner and safer through stricter regulation of asbestos, diesel emissions from vehicles, and certain industrial polluters. City officials said the legislation was a key step in making the city greener. But it was just as notable for what it didn’t […]
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The housing bubble that needs popping
Those new subdivisions out in the burbs? There’s a 97 percent chance that they’re energy hogs.
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No pain, no gain
Cheap-energy populism is the opposite of environmentalism. Deal with it.
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The blind meet the elephant
Can the world’s largest corporation be all things to all people? Probably.
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People without a clue
In which people staple books together, imagine Bush as Nixon, continue to publish Charles Krauthammer, and make due process disappear in Ohio.
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Linkin’ & sweatin’
Cool ruins, motorboats on ice, freezing out the drug war, 55 linguists who aren’t going to the Middle East, and your choice of 2,850 gods.