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In Chicago, Flooding Overwhelmingly Strikes Communities of Color

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In the early 1970s, Chicago embarked on one of the region’s most ambitious and expensive infrastructure projects to date: the Tunnel and Reservoir Project or “Deep Tunnel,” a massive storage system that will be able to hold more than 20 billion gallons of water when it’s finished in 2029. . They found an important statistical relationship.

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Astro2020 Decadal Survey calls for ‘great observatory’ to succeed Hubble

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Co-chaired by Fiona Harrison from the California Institute of Technology and Robert Kennicutt from the University of Arizona and Texas A&M University, it is the seventh decadal survey of its type. As well as LUVOIR and HabEx, two other large space-based missions were selected by NASA in 2016 to go forward into the Astro2020 process.