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Operation Flags for Vets seeks volunteers to help honor military veterans
Operation Flags for Vets is seeking locals to help in the annual Memorial Day Weekend tradition of honoring veterans. Every ...
Annual Des Plaines River Canoe & Kayak Marathon attracts hundreds of participants
Hundreds gathered Sunday morning under cloudy late spring skies to take part in the 68-year tradition of paddling the Des Plaines River.
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Trump promises not to claw back federal cash to keep invasive carp from the Great Lakes
The Trump administration “fully supports preventing the spread of invasive carp,” the memo said. “The State of Illinois, ...
Column: State gladly accepts federal funds to curb carp
Officials were afraid funding might be postponed since President Donald Trump and Gov. JB Pritzker have been sniping at each ...
Trump administration promises Illinois it will pay to keep invasive carp out of Great Lakes
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers along with state officials in Illinois and Michigan have been planning since 2020 to install ...
Trump statement urges Asian carp efforts. What are Asian carp, why do they pose a risk?
Multiple species of invasive Asian carp could wreck the Great Lakes. Trump memorandum commits federal government to action, urges states to move ahead.
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Great Lakes' $7 billion fishing industry may get a reprieve from the great carp invasion after all
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, along with state officials in Illinois and Michigan, have been planning since 2020 to install a gantlet of technologies in the Des Plaines River near Joliet ...
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Great Lakes' $7 billion fishing industry may get a reprieve from the great carp invasion after all
The new project at the Brandon Road Lock and Dam on the Des Plaines River near Joliet will provide another layer of protection at a downstream choke point between the Illinois River, which is ...