When Michael Flores paid $20,000 to remove asbestos from his attic, he didn’t expect to find the toxic material still there — ...

Often overlooked as a dimension of the health effects of war, the impacts of conflict on the environment are gaining increasing attention. Rebecca Sers reports.

Illinois is home to more than one million lead service lines, the highest state total in the nation. While efforts to replace ...

Dr. Susan Buchanan, Clinical Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of ...

Another round of excessive heat is on the way through much of the United States next week, with heat indices predicted to reach 110 degrees Fahrenheit ...

CHICAGO — As national cases of measles soar and federal health officials engage in vaccine skepticism, Illinois so far this year has seen only one small outbreak of the highly infectious disease ...

They want the fossil fuel industry — instead of Illinois taxpayers — held responsible for funding green, resilient ...

According to Paul Spiewak, tech team leader for Lake Lovers, many of the county’s lakes are considered impaired due to high ...

Gov. JB Pritzker should sign a bill that permits a person filing a case in an Illinois court to include out-of-state ...

An alert issued from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention warns of a multistate outbreak of Salmonella infections ...

Thousands of Americans have been warned that their drinking water has elevated levels of a contaminant, lead, posing a ...