Dixon Trail is the first community to be rated "Wildfire Prepared Plus" by the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS), a research group backed by the insurance industry.

A bill on Gov. JB Pritzker's desk could ban companies from manufacturing, selling, and distributing firefighting protective gear that contain forever chemicals.

Prioritizing embodied as well as operating energy, perhaps the most innovative aspect of the building is its reuse of over 25 tons of salvaged structural steel. During the schematic-design phase, the ...