A new report details how getting involved can make an impact — and how community-based strategies can significantly reduce ...

Young climate activists from Chicago called on Gov. JB Pritzker to enact legislation that would make the fossil fuel industry — instead of taxpayers — responsible for funding green, resilient ...

Stacker compiled statistics about how people in Chicago feel about climate change using data from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.

Other than climate-change deniers, no one is saying such things won’t happen eventually. Chicago and the entire country indisputably are getting warmer, especially over the past 20 years.

The first is that addressing climate change needs to be viewed through a strategic lens rather than as an altruistic act or ...

The 739 deaths in 1995 was the deadliest weather event in Illinois history and redefined Chicago’s emergency response and ...

Is climate migration beginning to reach Illinois? We know the panicked headlines were wrong: The Chicago area, in particular, and Illinois, overall, is modestly gaining, not losing, population ...

Curiously, there are no big plans—although there is, to be sure, an “action plan.”Published in 2008, under Mayor Richard M. Daley, it laid out several strategies for combating climate change ...

When it comes to government, there are few things more unattractive than nakedly partisan power politics, as reflected by a ...

And the city’s climate has been getting warmer, according to the 2008 Climate Change and Chicago report. It noted that temperatures have risen by at least 2.6 Fahrenheit since 1980, ...

A country that doesn’t allow citizens to criticize their leaders is not a democracy. It’s not where liberty or justice ...