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MWRD issues Overflow Action Alert
August 18, 2025
By reducing water during these storms, area residents and businesses can help reduce flooding and protect water quality.
"Join monarch butterfly conservation efforts to keep ecosystems thriving," Chicago Sun-Times
August 18, 2025
Every year, the International Monarch Monitoring Blitz invites residents across the continent to participate in protecting this iconic species.
MWRD Storm Update
August 17, 2025
Before severe storms, the MWRD lowers the level of the Chicago Area Waterway System as staff work around the clock managing the excess water.
MWRD issues update on Tunnel and Reservoir Plan
August 15, 2025
TARP is complete and fully operational except for the McCook Reservoir Stage 2 (McCook Stage 2).
"Chicago’s ‘Quantum Prairie’ Promises New Era of Great Lakes Technology and Water Use," Great Lakes Now
August 14, 2025
If plans proceed as anticipated, as early as 2027 a 440-acre property on Lake Shore Drive will be transformed into the first industrial park in the country to focus on developing quantum computing.
"From gray to green: Across Chicago, dozens of concrete schoolyards transformed into community hubs and flooding solutions," Chicago Tribune
August 13, 2025
In 2014, Chicago-based Healthy Schools Campaign, a national nonprofit that works to ensure schools can provide students with healthy environments, nutritious food, health services and opportunities for physical activity — transformed playgrounds at Grissom and three other schools.