Editorial: Chicago’s water, Chicago’s future

Imagination and restoration can create jobs, monetize a resource and improve our environment

Metropolitan Chicago can have a robust economy long into the 21st century because of its freshwater assets and its transit infrastructure, should we invest in them. As urban sprawl imperils freshwater supplies elsewhere and climate change threatens coastal inundations that would push more Americans to the continent’s interior, we can position this region for water-intensive industries and sustainable growth…Please click here to read Debra Shore’s opinion piece published in the Tribune series “A New Plan of Chicago.”