GLIN Daily News RSS Feed for Illinois http://www.great-lakes.net/news/ 2010-03-17T14:01:01-04:00 http://www.great-lakes.net/news/ http://www.glin.net/news/rss.gif text/html 2010-03-09T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/us/07cncimpact.html Proposals to block Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes have largely focused on the costs and inconvenience of closing off Chicago-area waterways into Lake Michigan. But now business and environmental groups are exploring a possible upside: a broadly based infrastructure investment that would benefit much of northern Illinois. text/html 2010-03-08T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0306/Mayor-Daley-Chicago-shouldn-t-bear-full-cost-of-Asian-carp Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley agrees that the Asian carp present an ecological and economic threat to the Great Lakes. But he disagrees with neighboring states that Illinois should lock down a historic canal that allows the fish to get to Lake Michigan. text/html 2010-03-04T08:05:50-04:00 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704454304575081822274572704.html?mod=googlenews_wsj From the Windy City to the White House, there has been much discussion recently about the presence of Asian carp in the Chicago Area Waterway System and the potential damage their migration could cause to the Great Lakes. text/html 2010-03-02T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-0228-tour-boat-threat-20100301,0,3085886.story With the unofficial start of the boating season just weeks away, operators and owners of the most popular Chicago boat tours are bracing for a possibility that once was unthinkable -- closure of the Chicago River. text/html 2010-02-25T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.iisgcp.org/Unwantedmeds/ Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant has prepared a toolkit containing information to help communities start a collection program for unwanted medicines. Collection programs help reduce the amount of pharmaceuticals that leach into the environment and water supply due to improper disposal. text/html 2010-02-24T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-asian-carp-plea-20100223,0,2035100.story Illinois' attorney general asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to uphold its earlier decision not to force the state to close Chicago-area shipping locks to prevent the spread of Asian carp, arguing that Michigan's renewed pleas were unfounded. text/html 2010-02-24T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/northnorthwest/ct-x-n-superfund-cleanup-20100224,0,4486392.story Cleanup of the contaminated Outboard Marine Corp. plant, expected to cost $21 million, is one of several continuing pollution remediation projects for the Waukegan Harbor area in Illinois along Lake Michigan. text/html 2010-02-23T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/02/parameters-of-electrical-field-in-carp-controversy-questioned.html The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is investigating whether the electrical field generated by the underwater barriers designed to keep Asian carp out of the Great Lakes has extended into adjacent land near the barrier site in Romeoville, Ill. text/html 2010-02-18T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.petoskeynews.com/national_news/article_9683a73a-1c93-11df-a1f6-001cc4c002e0.html Commercial fishermen and biologists from the Ill. Dept. of Natural Resources and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service braved frigid temperatures to search for Asian carp that may have breached electric barriers on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. text/html 2010-02-17T08:05:50-04:00 http://gapersblock.com/mechanics/2010/02/16/steel-to-pavement-building-the-calumet-sag-trail/ The Calumet-Sag Trail is a proposed 26-mile multi-use path that will be built along the banks of the Calumet-Sag Channel and Calumet River and will connect with other existing trails, including the Centennial Trail, creating a 150-mile trail system around the Chicago Southland.