Daywatch: Southland now home to ‘world’s best Pilsner’
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As energy companies shift away from burning coal to generate electricity, many are leaving behind toxic waste that could endanger public health and the environment for years to come.
New regulations proposed by the Biden administration would expand the number of coal ash dumps subject to federal oversight, a change intended to prevent spills that during the past decade wreaked havoc near power plants in North Carolina and Tennessee.
One of the sites that would come under federal oversight is the Waukegan Generating Station on Lake Michigan, a former ComEd coal plant ringed by two unlined ash ponds and an unlicensed landfill. Another is a Joliet quarry where ComEd and other companies dumped coal ash until NRG Energy overhauled a nearby coal plant in 2016 to burn natural gas.
Read the full story from the Tribune’s Michael Hawthorne.
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Chicago to work with Biden administration on plan to fight homelessness
Chicago is one of six locations selected for the “ALL INside” program, an offshoot of President Joe Biden’s December federal strategic plan aimed at reducing homelessness nationally by 25% by 2025.
The new program is focused on finding housing for those who are unsheltered — people who live on the street and in cars, transit and other places not meant for habitation.
Chicago Plan Commission approves framework for Pilsen affordable housing boost
Increasing rents and property values over the past two decades forced thousands of residents to leave the predominantly Mexican immigrant neighborhood, but the city purchased last year for $12 million roughly 6 acres at West 18th and South Peoria streets, and envisions hundreds of mid-rise and high-rise units, many affordable, as well as for-sale homes, rising on the now-vacant land.
“This site is the largest undeveloped site in the Pilsen neighborhood,” said James Harris, supervising planner with the city’s Department of Planning and Development.
Southland now home to ‘world’s best Pilsner’
Illinois craft breweries made a good showing at the 2023 World Beer Cup, taking home two gold, three silver, and two bronze awards from the competition that ended in Nashville on May 10. Two of the winners are popular places in the Southland.
Photographs shine a light on how a lack of masking is pushing Chicago residents with disabilities out of the public sphere
Artist Terri Hudson jumped at the chance to be a part of photographer Megan Doherty’s latest work, “Compromised” — over a dozen portraits of people who are immunocompromised trying to live their lives amid the ongoing pandemic.
Each portrait is accompanied by words from the participants — essays, letters, etc. — in their own handwriting about how they have been impacted by COVID-19, how they’ve been forced out of public life and what that has done to them emotionally, professionally, socially and economically.
Get to know Terell Smith: Q&A with the new Bears cornerback’s college coach
With a need for depth at cornerback to join Jaylon Johnson and Kyler Gordon, the Bears drafted Tyrique Stevenson in the second round and circled back for Minnesota’s Terell Smith in Round 5 at No. 165.
Conventional thinking is Stevenson will get the first shot to be a starter in the nickel package, but the Bears believe Smith has upside and will compete to be in the mix.
‘White Men Can’t Jump’ review: Hustling and hoop dreams, remade
“White Men Can’t Jump” no longer exists to be fondly remembered and re-watched, but as a library title to be reimagined, writes critic Nina Metz. Like so much else that Hollywood endlessly recycles, the question hovering around the edges of the movie is simply: Why?
The original is on Hulu. The new version is on Hulu. All things being equal, what would compel audiences to watch the remake?
