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Three candidates running to be Metropolis, Illinois’s next mayor
Three men are campaigning to be the next mayor of Metropolis. The incumbent mayor Don Canada, city alderman Chuck Short and ...
Opinion
Editorial: Illinois has too many townships. Pritzker-backed bills to prune them should get action.
Do you know which township you live in? Many people don’t. But Illinois has 1,426 of them, so it’s worth paying attention to what they do. Bob Anderson is. The former McHenry Township ...
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Illinois city passes law to slash emissions from big buildings
Evanston is the latest in a growing wave of municipalities and states enacting laws to decarbonize existing buildings, a ...
Mayor Parker wants City Council members to give up a little power over land. They don’t love the idea.
Parker will have to proceed gingerly if she is to win over lawmakers for her $2 billion housing plan. Council members adamantly protect their power to tweak zoning maps in their districts, and expect ...
Landing a data center is worth the environmental tradeoffs, Illinois towns say
For Ric Offerman, Minooka’s mayor, these are inescapable environmental tradeoffs to secure a multibillion-dollar investment from Equinix, Inc., a Redwood City, California-based company that operates ...