Adriana Pérez
News Reporter at Chicago Tribune
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2 weeks ago |
chicagotribune.com | Adriana Pérez
As an ice sheet thousands of feet thick began its final crawling retreat from North America to the Arctic toward the end of the last glacial period some 10,000 years ago, it left behind the planet’s largest freshwater system. At least that’s what scientists have long believed about the formation of the Great Lakes.
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3 weeks ago |
chicagotribune.com | Adriana Pérez
More than a year after its planned introduction, an environmental ordinance that aims to address decades of discriminatory planning, zoning and land-use policies in Chicago will finally be brought before the City Council. But some community activists are blasting city officials for not making the ordinance available to the public beforehand — a move they call alienating after a mostly collaborative partnership with Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration.
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3 weeks ago |
chicagotribune.com | Adriana Pérez
A 39-year-old man from Joliet appeared in court Saturday after felony charges were approved earlier in the week stemming from an undercover operation that determined he was trafficking another person for prostitution, Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart announced Sunday. On Wednesday, the sheriff’s office vice unit responded to an ad on a website for commercial sex solicitations.
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4 weeks ago |
chicagotribune.com | Adriana Pérez
Chicago-area residents might feel like it’s been a really long winter after enduring stretches of below-normal temperatures in January and February and a couple snowfalls in March. But the lingering cold snaps actually contributed to a proper winter — unlike the record highs and bitter but brief Arctic blasts of recent years.
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4 weeks ago |
chicagotribune.com | Adriana Pérez
A crowd of more than 100 people, including workers from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, rallied Tuesday outside its regional headquarters in downtown Chicago to protest regulatory rollbacks as well as funding and personnel cuts ordered by President Donald Trump. While the administration says it is spearheading government efficiency, current federal employees and the 1,000 probationary workers across several agencies who were fired in February are speaking out against the reductions.
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