“If your intentions are to come here and to take advantage of people and commit a crime then you’re in the wrong city. Because we’re going to come after you,"
LeDarien Devontae Deshon Gregory, 29, is charged with kidnapping while hijacking a vehicle, kidnapping with serious bodily injury, auto theft, identity deception and operating a vehicle without a license.
Wilder Fields has unveiled its first grow tower in a vacant Super Target in Calumet City, which it plans to turn into "one of the world s largest vertical farms."
Sun-Times Media
We are all impacted by the effects of climate change. Our basements are flooding, droughts kill our crops and people are dying in heat waves.
But we are not all impacted equally.
Like so many of the other challenges we face, communities of color in Cook County and all over the country are continually hit the hardest. People already disproportionately burdened by a lack of access to jobs, healthcare and education also shoulder the heaviest burdens of climate change. Climate change is not only an environmental issue it’s an issue of equity, as well.
Opinion
Access to clean water is an issue of equity.