Greens on the Ballot!

Monday, Dec. 11, 2017 – The final day to file objections to candidate ballot access petitions has passed, and the Illinois Green Party slate for the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Board of Commissioners went unchallenged. Your Illinois Greens will be on...

Petition Push – November 18 and 19

MWRD candidates will be hitting the street the weekend of Nov. 18th and 19th — State Street, specifically, along Chicago’s busiest blocks for weekend pedestrian traffic! With two weeks left in the filing period, the Green Party candidates for the MWRD...

Sewage Dumps All Too Routine in Cook County

At 4:29pm on Saturday, October 14th, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago announced via Twitter that “The gates at Chicago River and Wilmette Harbor are open to allow flow to Lake Michigan.” The “flow” referred to is a “combined sewer...