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

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

Banking for now on an outdated EPA rule from the first Trump administration, the city with the most lead service lines in the ...

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 ...

It’s a widespread hazard because Chicago required lead pipes until 1986. Yet, as Brett Chase reported in the Dec. 4 Sun-Times, the city has replaced only 280 of an estimated 390,000 lead service ...

Replacing lead pipes in the Chicago area is a complex process.Even those who know about and qualify for the city’s free lead line replacement programs struggle with red tape, and community ...

Even though lead in drinking water damages children’s development, the Environmental Protection Agency has forced very few cities to replace their lead pipes. Consider Chicago, with more water ...

Chicago's Water Department has a program to replace lead lines with copper pipes for free, but Pedraza doesn't qualify because her family income is above the threshold of $84,000 a year. "We ...

In Chicago, about 400,000 homes still get their tap water through lead service lines — pipes that connect individual homes to the main water line.. And nearly 70% of young children are getting ...

The research, published Monday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, estimated that 68 percent of children under the age of 6 in Chicago are exposed to lead-contaminated drinking water.

Even though lead in drinking water damages children’s development, the Environmental Protection Agency has forced very few cities to replace their lead pipes.. Consider Chicago, with more water ...