Banking for now on an outdated EPA rule from the first Trump administration, the city with the most lead service lines in the ...

Among the five U.S. cities estimated to have the most lead pipes — Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Detroit and Milwaukee — only ...

Children born today will be middle-aged by the time Chicago finishes replacing all of its lead service lines, according to ...

At its current pace, the city’s project to replace lead water lines in Chicago’s Southside neighborhoods could take two ...

Illinois’ share of clean water grants to states would dip to $11 million next year, compared with $105.5 million this year.

A construction crew replaces a lead service line at a home in Chicago in June 2023. The city has replaced 7,923 lead service lines over the past four years, but still has more than 400,000 to go.

Environment Many Chicagoans likely to wait decades for dangerous lead pipes to be replaced The city with the most lead service lines in the country doesn’t plan to finish replacing them until 2076.