The MWRD and the Village of South Holland recently celebrated the completion of an eight-year 11.8-acre flood mitigation measure called the Thorn Ditch Mitigation Project.

The project is designed to reduce flooding affecting 130 homes and several roadways along the Central Road corridor.

MWRD, South Holland and Cook County to celebrate completion of Thorn Ditch flood mitigation project

A report ranks Chicago as the most climate-resilient large city on the planet — but is it that simple? In the Loop with Sasha-Ann Simons discuss the report with guests Kevin Fitzpatrick, assistant director of engineering at the MWRD, and Karen Weigert, director of Loyola University Chicago’s Baumhart Center for Social Enterprise and Responsibility.

Board meetings are open to the public and can be streamed online.

Space to Grow has transformed 41 Chicago schoolyards, with four more under construction, into vibrant outdoor spaces for students during the school day and gathering spaces for the local community outside school hours. Design features of the schoolyards add important green infrastructure to Chicago and collectively can absorb approximately 8.8 million gallons of stormwater per rain event in the city.