Chicago Green News

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Frans Stracensky turns his camera on health care reform in a series of relevant monologues aimed at creating awareness. Industry professionals, political leaders, and people on the street all share thoughts on health care in the 50+ videos presented by...

If you are no longer using your desk top or lap top computer, or your keyboard, scanner, printer, fax machine, modems, hard drives etc. Why not give them to an organization who will use them to teach people with special...

When is apparently now after the Illinois Department of Agriculture confirmed to the city the ash borer had been identified in at least one tree. Joe Petrizzo, Oak Forest's superintendent of streets for the public works department and a certified...

Wasco farmer Chris Collins has been busy bringing in his crops, just like he does every season...Collins, with his wife, Hope, is one of the farmers participating in the Kane County Farm Bureau's Harvest for ALL, a program aimed at...

The Grant Farm helped attract federal stimulus monies to replace 31 gas- and diesel-powered buses with 31 hybrid-power buses. The vehicles primarily are used by senior and disabled riders in Illinois. The Grant Farm is working on $52 million in...

BioCat Fuels plans to raise $7 million through a private stock offering to buy or build a biodiesel plant in Illinois that will use a patented process to produce biodiesel fuel from waste oils. BioCat, a start-up, would use technology...

Ill. — A Chicago-area laboratory will get $8.8 million in federal stimulus cash to help find ways to make batteries more efficient for use in cars and other vehicles. The Argonne National Laboratory will use the funds to construct three...