MWRD commemorates the 100th Anniversary of Black History Month

MWRD commemorates the 100th Anniversary of Black History Month

Alex Maragos caught up with Team USA women’s hockey player Abbey Murphy.

During their meeting, Durbin and President Steele spoke about securing federal reimbursement from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for construction of the reservoir.

The reservoir has a capacity of 7.9 billion gallons and is connected to Chicago's Deep Tunnel network to prevent flooding — both in the form of basement backups and in the form of overflow of the banks of Thorn Creek.

How and why the flow of the Chicago River was reversed

The toilet flushes during this Super Bowl increased by nearly 300,000 from the previous year.

The sewage spill was “a single event," but the circumstances that led to it are not unique.

The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, which is now overseeing the site, observed asphalt in the canal and along the shoreline after the cleanup was reported complete, said IEPA spokesperson Kim Biggs in a statement last week.

Nearly a half-million gallons of non-road-grade liquid asphalt spilled into the canal this year. Under normal circumstances, this would be troubling, but federal resources could help address the problem quickly and effectively.