Chicago-area residents have been asked to reduce water use ahead of forecasted heavy rains, including delaying showers and ...

Making the Chicago River a healthy, biodiverse and climate resilient lifeline through the city is the focus of many groups ...

Heavy rain that started overnight continues Thursday, bringing a risk of flooding before a round possible thunderstorms moves ...

The saying goes April showers brings May flowers, but April showers also brings the start of Chicago's vaunted street sweeping season.

When heavy rains overwhelm the Chicago area's combined sewer systems, stormwater and wastewater can mix in the same pipe, and sewage can end up in the Chicago River. When that happens, fish leave ...

It's almost hard to believe that the Chicago River was once so polluted by sewage and industrial waste, it was commonly ...

Porter had approved a planned unit development agreement for a large apartment complex with a Chicago developer ... to access sanitary sewer and eliminate their septic systems,” Barry ...

Chicago-area residents are being asked to ... are used by MWRD in an effort to keep excess water from entering sewer systems. If too much water enters those systems, it can lead to flooding ...