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Navigator CO2, which proposes building a pipeline and storing millions of tons of carbon dioxide underground in central Illinois, conducted a two-month, 24/7 drilling operation to build a monitoring well across from the home of Sabrina and Ralph Jones.

Navigator says the project will fight climate change by preventing carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere. And the largest U.S. climate bill ever, the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, is encouraging such projects with generous financial incentives.

But Navigator opponents, many of them landowners who don’t want to live near high-pressure pipelines carrying a potentially suffocating gas, have voiced numerous concerns, including that underground carbon storage has never before been done at this scale.

Now, Nokomis-area residents say they have yet another reason to question the project: the drilling operation outside the Joneses’ house.

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Politically powerful labor unions flexed their muscle in Springfield this spring to push through a measure that could clear the way for privately managed toll lanes on congested Interstate 55, giving new life to a concept that’s been floated for more than a decade.

But the effort, led primarily by the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150, also further inflamed tensions between organized labor and environmentalists, two core constituencies for Democrats who control state government.

In a move that could affect Northwestern University’s plans to renovate its football stadium, the city of Evanston has asked a judge to remove the stadium’s parking lot from consideration by a special committee that debates disputes over the school’s land use.

Resident committee members said they were shocked the city’s lawyer would make such a proposal, which is against their wishes, and without public notification, and said they plan to go to court to stop the action.

In the six years since Cook County opened the first community court in North Lawndale in 2017, it has added two more, in Englewood and Avondale, accepting young adult participants accused of low-level, nonviolent crimes.

For those who advocate for alternative approaches to meting out justice in Cook County, the restorative justice courts are an intriguing experiment. The courts seek to provide a gentler version of justice, one that forces defendants to acknowledge and atone for the harm their actions have caused, while also providing social services and dismissing the case if the program is completed in the hopes of reducing recidivism and tackling entrenched systemic problems that contribute to the city’s gun violence.

Earlier this month, Erin Holcomb boarded her rabbit, Ziggy, for about two weeks at Cuddle Bunny in Lakeview before she headed out of town.

Last week, while Ziggy was still boarded, the first confirmed cases of rabbit hemorrhagic disease in Illinois, a contagious and fatal viral illness that affects rabbits, were confirmed to have originated at Cuddle Bunny.

For 45 years, Chicago-based Children’s Oncology Services Inc. has been operating Camp One Step at Geneva Lake in Williams Bay, Wisconsin. It is the flagship camp that is one of 10 free, in-person, year-round experiences for kids with cancer, as young as 5, and their families.

Offerings include virtual programming; a Utah ski trip; a dude ranch trip in Mauston, Wisconsin; a day camp in Chicago; and family and sibling camps in winter, as well as one camp that caters to those with brain tumors.

WTTW-Ch. 11 contributing anchor Phil Ponce and his wife, Ann, have decided to downsize in a unique way, paying $527,500 in mid-June to buy a three-story ranch cottage on a 1.5-acre property in Northbrook that is steeped in Chicago-area artistic history.

Paul Sullivan writes that Chicago Cubs’ broadcaster Pat Hughes’ approach to work — and though many believe describing a baseball game is a dream job, it is still a lot of work — has helped him become one of the premier broadcasters of our time.

As Hughes accepted the Ford C. Frick Award on Saturday from the Baseball Hall of Fame for excellence in broadcasting, Cubs fans across the nation nodded in unison at an honor long overdue.

Tribune critic Nick Kindelsperger writes that the best dish he tried at Čálli wasn’t even on the regular menu. Available as a special the first time Kindelsperger visited, it started with a tlacoyo, an oval-shaped piece of griddled masa, steamy and smelling of toasted corn. Inside hid creamy pinto beans. A pile of shredded goat birria sat on top, brick-red in color and fiendishly complex, thanks to a marinade containing multiple kinds of toasted red chiles, charred tomatoes and lots of spices.