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At least for now, despite the uncertainty associated with the federal government shutdown, local agencies are continuing to accept applications for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
“Right now, we are still able to serve clients – at least until mid-December – thanks to some carry over funds and state funding,” said Michelle Allen, the executive director of the Will County Center for Community Concerns.
The 2025 corn and soybean growing season ended as it started — ideal conditions — along with the usual and unusual challenges sandwiched in between.
Crystal Williams, Pioneer agronomist in DeKalb, Lee, Ogle and Whiteside counties, recapped the northern Illinois growing season.
Planting began ahead of schedule.
The 28-mile Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal was the product of a monumental feat of engineering that reversed the flow of the Chicago River, but no one can deny it is saddled with a rather unpleasant name.
A coalition of nonprofits, government bodies, elected officials, businesses, and residents has decided it's time for a name change for the canal — and the public can vote on the name through Friday afternoon.
The Eagle Street Gateway project, which broke ground in March of this year in Naperville, is finished and open to the public.
A key goal of the project was to improve accessibility between the upper and lower paths along the Riverwalk.
The government shutdown is poised to become the longest ever this week as the impasse between Democrats and Republicans has dragged into a new month. Millions of people stand to lose food aid benefits, health care subsidies are set to expire, and there are few real talks between the parties over how to end it.
Naperville Riverwalk’s revamped Eagle Street Gateway, already being used by visitors, will be celebrated Nov. 14 with a public grand opening event.
Completion of the reimagined amenity marks the latest step in implementing the Riverwalk 2031 Master Plan, a years-long push to improve the DuPage River walkway in time for its 50th anniversary — and the city’s 200th — in 2031. The gateway is one of the largest proposed Riverwalk improvements.
The Aurora Police Department recently launched the Senior Safety and Resources Unit to strengthen the department’s connections with the elderly and protect seniors from scams and crimes.
The unit was developed by the department’s Community Oriented Policing Division, according to a news release.
Winning the artificial intelligence race against China will require expanded manufacturing fueled in no small part by legal immigration, the Republican co-chair of the Senate AI Caucus said Wednesday.
As the government shutdown nears the one-month mark, and nearly 2 million Illinoisans are on track to lose their federal food benefits Saturday, a recent move by a suburban congressman is well worth noting.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Bill Foster of Naperville announced he’ll donate the congressional pay he receives during the shutdown to the Northern Illinois Food Bank. He did the same during previous shutdowns in 2013 and 2019. Other suburban members of Congress have made similar moves in the past.
An alarming number of people in Chicago and the suburbs are struggling to put food on the table. And combating the problem is only expected to become more difficult.
Northern Illinois Food Bank, the Greater Chicago Food Depository and the Food Bank of Northwest Indiana sounded the alarm in September when they released a joint hunger report that pointed to soaring food and rent prices and looming SNAP cuts.
According to the report, one in four people in the greater Chicago area are facing food insecurity.