Lately, ideas around gardening have been developing so rapidly that it’s hard to remember a time when the word “substrate” was not part of our everyday conversation. An un-glamorous subject will ...

On the face of it, at least, it seemed like a straightforward, sensible idea: Chicago would pass a law to make it easier to reuse soil and rubble dug up during construction projects so it doesn’t have ...

Virginia Rugai, chair of the City Council’s energy and environment committee, wanted to clarify an important point for the record Tuesday before aldermen began reviewing a proposal to allow the reuse ...