Cityscapes: Roofers, landscapers in a turf war over Chicago's green roofs

Chicago is a leader in green roofs. The city installed more than 534,000 square feet of green roofs last year

landscape installer is about $16 an hour, compared with $30 an hour for a roofer, according to the unions.

Moore Landscapes showed it is industry practice to hire landscapers to install green roofs.

the unions took their dispute to the National Labor Relations Board. Last month, the board ruled in favor of Moore Landscapes Inc

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Video gambling to go before full McHenry County County Board

 

WOODSTOCK – The McHenry County Board will make the choice as to whether to ban video gambling or put it to a referendum.
Its Liquor and License Commission on Monday did not choose one or the other, but decided to forward both ideas to the County Board

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Caterpillar permanently cuts some jobs, begins rehiring other workers

 

2,500 laid-off employees will be permanently cut from the company and 550 others will be brought back to work by the end of next year.

The workers are among more than 22,000 laid off earlier this year as Caterpillar dramatically scaled back production due to weaker demand amid the global economic downturn. The Peoria-based company has cut 16 percent of its work force, which now stands at just above 94,000.

it's important to remember that we are not close to the record-breaking demand we experienced from 2004 through 2008."

Daily Herald | Caterpillar permanently cuts some jobs, begins rehiring other workers

3 Illinois newspapers file lawsuit seeking records from Logan County

 

State Journal-Register of Springfield, the Bloomington Pantagraph and the Decatur Herald-Review, filed the lawsuit Friday in Logan County Circuit Court. They say officials in Logan County have illegally withheld the paperwork

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Studying the H1N1 connection between pigs and people | Seattle Times Newspaper

This is a very informative summary regarding the swine-human connection with H1N1 flu. 

Many experts think pig farming presents a serious and overlooked risk to public health. Proof of that assertion — indirect but indisputable, in the opinion of virologists — is the 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza.

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