Leann Spencer

Army officials on Wednesday will discuss the results of environmental testing at various sites at Ft. Sheridan. About 15 sites including vehicle storage areas, maintenance yards and coal storage areas...

In 1993, poet Lisel Mueller confessed to an interviewer that her eyes were so frail, she wrote in large, black letters with a felt-tipped pen so she could see her...

State regulators have given Browning-Ferris Industries Inc. permission to begin expansion of its landfill near Green Bay Road and 9th Street. The 5-year development permit is the first of many...

Waterlogged and weary from last week's floods, residents and municipal officials across the Chicago region on Wednesday braced for a second unseasonable onslaught of water. They stacked more sandbags, closed...

For nearly two decades, signs warning against eating the fish from the blighted north harbor in Waukegan were as much a fixture as the seagulls that swoop over the piers....

Army and environmental regulators will update the public next week on their investigations of Landfills 3 and 4 at Ft. Sheridan. The landfills are part of the 110-acre historic district...

Environmental regulators will update the public on the status of testing at Ft. Sheridan during a meeting of its environmental advisory board Wednesday. Specifically, officials will focus on testing on...

Back-yard environmentalists who would rather see prairie wildflowers instead of blue grass turf in their lawns now have a local resource for information. A new non-profit group called Lake-to-Prairie Wild...

In the four months since the Army proposed a $16.9 million cleanup plan for two landfills at historic Ft. Sheridan, local environmental groups and elected officials have complained the plan...

Five homeowners in the Woodland Meadows subdivision in unincorporated Gurnee have joined in a legal challenge to a proposed new development in their area. The Woodland Meadows owners added their...