Waste Management

Down the road from Ogle County’s Solid Waste office in Oregon is a can crusher. It looks like a top heavy white shed, a rectangle on top of a square. You…

When a city negotiates a new contract for waste haulers, it can lead to a change in services or opportunities to lower costs.If you live in a…

There’s no trash collection on a holiday, but a number of DeKalb residents likely have it on their minds. The city’s move to change waste haulers garnered…

A number of local governments across Illinois are getting money to inspect pollution-control facilities and to investigate complaints about illegal…

Dozens of students and staff at Cortland Elementary School received medical treatment Jan. 14 after complaining of nausea.The smell from Waste…

Illinois regulators have issued a report on this month’s landfill leak that sickened dozens of students and teachers at a DeKalb County school. Officials…

The Illinois EPA continues to look into this week's incident at Cortland Elementary School. On Tuesday, dozens of students and staff at the DeKalb County…

67 Cortland Elementary School students and staff members were admitted to Kishwaukee Hospital's emergency room today after complaining of nausea: they…

It was a long and contentious gathering in the Cortland Township maintenance garage last night: about 75 registered voters showed up to decide whether to…

A group fighting landfill expansion in DeKalb County is going to take a new approach, pulling township government into the case. “Stop the Mega Dump”…