The new ordinance caps the acceptable noise level for a data center at 65 decibels along all property lines "except during ...

If approved, the additional funds would amount to "basically half of our police or half of our fire department, to put that ...

Banking for now on an outdated EPA rule from the first Trump administration, the city with the most lead service lines in the ...

It’s been months since an ordinance aimed at keeping new industrial facilities out of polluted neighborhoods was introduced.

Some members of Chicago City Council are raising questions regarding the Chicago Police Department's response to ICE activity ...

CPD has said police did not assist ICE at all during an operation when federal agents arrested 10 people at a South Loop ...

Illinois continues to dither on regulating intoxicating synthetic hemp gummies and the like. Our politicians should be ...

BRIAN NADIG Businesses in the 41st and 45 wards will soon be prohibited from selling, possessing or giving away “any cannabinoid hemp” product. The ban is primarily intended to help prevent minors ...

Chicago Ald. Gilbert Villegas, 36th, attends a Chicago City Council meeting at City Hall on Dec. 11, 2024, in Chicago. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) ...

Akele Parnell is among the many Black owners of cannabis dispensaries who are frustrated by the lack of hemp regulation in Chicago and Illinois. He says he wants to see regulation that not only ends ...

The city isn’t short on ideas. A new subcommittee on revenue considered a list of possibilities in June of 2024 (thus far the subcommittee’s only meeting, apart from a joint hearing on hemp regulation ...

Ald. William Hall, 6th, left, talks with Ald. Lamont Robinson, 4th, during a City Council meeting where hemp regulations were discussed on Jan. 15, 2025, at City Hall in Chicago.