Better Business Bureau Web Survey reveals consumers focus on wrong issues in their concern about ID Theft
Chicago, IL - Fear of lost or stolen credit cards ranks as the highest identity theft concern among consumers. However,...
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Act of heroism by MWRD staff prevents potential drowning in Chicago River
During a routine patrol aboard a Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) pontoon boat along the Chicago River...
MWRD Commissioner Patricia Horton presents proclamation to Women’s Business Development Center
Honors 26th Annual Entrepreneurial Woman’s Conference and Women’s Business and Buyer Mart    During the Metropolitan Water Reclamation...
Metropolitan Water Reclamation District to collect unwanted drugs during National Take Back Day Sept. 29
Another opportunity to prevent or reduce accidental contamination of streams, rivers and lakes by disposing of pharmaceuticals in an environmentally-friendly...
Free pedestrian playground Open Streets returns to the Loop bigger and better on Saturday, Sept. 8, and makes exciting debut in Wicker Park/Bucktown on Sunday, Sept. 16
 CHICAGO, IL — Chicagoland residents are invited to enjoy the return of Open Streets, Chicago’s free pedestrian playground, on Saturday...
Black Women’s Roundtable shifts the focus to the issues and voting power of Black Women at the Republican and Democratic Conventions
WASHINGTON, DCÂ - In their continuing efforts to make Black women's issues a top priority and remind elected officials and candidates...
How do higher taxes, more regulation and fewer jobs help the Middle Class?
 (From the Illinois GOP)   During yesterday’s speeches at the Democratic National Convention, we heard a lot about helping...
Madigan announces E-Book Publishers price-fixing settlement
 Book Publishers Conspired to Overcharge Consumers for e-Books  CHICAGO, IL — Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan joined 54 other...
Mary Todd Lincoln insanity re-trials September 24 in Chicago and October 1 in Springfield
 Re-trials  will feature modern judges as the attorneys and audience members as the jury  CHICAGO, IL – Was Mary Todd...
Free delivery improves residents’ access to rain barrels in Cook County; Drought season increases need
Rain barrels might seem unnecessary during a drought such as the one that has wreaked havoc on farmlands and gardeners...
