The Southeast Side is expected to eventually get a new green space after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers cleans up the site ...

This week, the Army Corps finally withdrew its proposal to extend the landfill, due in part to Illinois state permits getting ...

Over the next two decades, the proposed 25-foot vertical expansion along the Lake Michigan shoreline would ... that prohibits the construction of new landfills or the expansion of existing ...

The dump — known as a confined disposal facility — was constructed in 1984 to store polluted sediment dredged from the Calumet River and Cal-Sag Channel. When it reached capacity, the initial plan was ...

A proposed increase to $5 per-ton would reimburse landfill host communities and raise money for pollution cleanups.

After yearslong litigation from residents and activists, and following recent opposition from the state of Illinois, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Tuesday it was dropping a plan to expand ...