8 dead in charter plane crash near remote military radar site in Alaska
The crash of a small plane in Alaska chartered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is under investigation.
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The crash of a small plane in Alaska chartered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is under investigation.
U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) and Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago President Kari Steele met Wednesday to talk about securing federal funding owed to the district for the Thornton Composite Reservoir.
The Chicago Harbor Lock is facing steep cuts to its federal funding under President Trump's 2026 budget.
The tunnel could destroy wetlands and harm bat habitats but would eliminate the chances of a boat anchor rupturing the line and causing a catastrophic spill, the Army Corps of Engineers said.
The landfill opened in the early 1980s along the shore, and in 2020, the Army Corps called for extending it.
For years, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers insisted that extending the landfill was the best option. But after a lengthy legal fight, the corps has changed its position. Jermont Terry reports.
The dump is located at the mouth of the river next to the lakefront park of Calumet Park.
The dump is located at the mouth of the river next to the lakefront park of Calumet Park. CBS 2 Investigator Megan Hickey reports.
Contractors packed the old Westlake Hospital, wearing masks. It is a race against time to assess the mechanics of a building that will provide care for those patients with more serious cases of COVID-19.
Any day now, a section of Chicago's lakefront could get the OK to grow 25 feet taller – with a pile of contaminated materials.
Higher water means narrower beaches. But it helps commercial shippers, who don't have to worry about scraping bottom in shallow channels.
The Army Corps of Engineers probe could take as long as a year.
There's an uproar in a Northwest Side neighborhood around Horner Park over plans to take out all the trees along the Chicago River from Irving Park to Montrose.
The Army Corps of Engineers has turned back requests by federal lawmakers and the barge industry to release more water from the Missouri River, believing the drought-starved Mississippi River it feeds still will remain open to shipping despite mounting concerns about water levels.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to boost the charge on electric fences designed to keep Asian carp out of the Great Lakes.
Downstate Illinois cities and towns along the Mississippi River are bracing for moderate to major flooding this season, but officials have learned lessons from the disaster in 2008.
A Chicago company has won a lucrative contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
