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Home/Lands

Indigenous diasporas and making 'home' in the Rust Belt.

Kasey Keeler2022-07-06T12:33:37-04:00June 10, 2022|
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  • Top Stories Collage - 2021

Belt’s Top Stories of 2021

Ten pieces our readers kept coming back to.

Belt Magazine2022-02-08T10:29:55-05:00December 27, 2021|
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  • Burning of Peshtigo

Fire in Peshtigo

The deadliest fire in U.S. history happened one hundred and fifty years ago near Peshtigo, Wisconsin. You’ve probably never heard of it.

Susan Lampert Smith2021-11-19T12:38:04-05:00October 8, 2021|
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Grasping at Shifting Sands

On the eroding shores of Lakes Michigan and Huron, a buried eighteenth-century lumber port, and the stakes of inaction.

Natalie Tomlin2022-04-15T16:47:43-04:00July 16, 2021|
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  • Todd - Mackinaw Bridge

Around Lake Michigan on the Circle Tour

Sixty years ago, my parents took us on a driving tour of Lake Michigan, the quintessential Midwest road trip.

Bob Zeni2022-04-15T16:47:44-04:00May 27, 2021|
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  • Love - Gary Dune and Swale

When Asked to Describe Gary “In Your Own Words”

"I get to say that I’m from here."

Dylan Hollingsworth2020-09-16T16:32:59-04:00September 10, 2020|
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  • DeGrane - Chicago Lakefront

After the Flood

How Chicago is coping with the effects of climate change.

Katie Pyzyk2020-08-27T13:56:02-04:00April 21, 2020|
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  • DeGrane - South Branch Chicago River

What to Do with the Chicago River?

Reimagining the waterway for the twenty-first century.

Rachel Havrelock and Kathleen Blackburn2020-08-27T13:59:55-04:00February 25, 2020|
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  • Nabong - 1919 1

Commemorating Chicago’s Red Summer of 1919

Photos of key sites and commemorative events on the 100th anniversary of Eugene Williams's murder.

Pat Nabong2019-08-23T11:52:54-04:00July 30, 2019|
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  • Nabong - Indiana Dunes Birding - 1

Birdwatching at Indiana Dunes National Park

The Indiana Dunes Birding Festival and the art of paying attention.

Pat Nabong2019-06-19T14:48:28-04:00May 22, 2019|
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  • Big Rock Point Nuclear Power Plant - Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Power and Peril at the Great Lakes

Lessons from one 1971 near-disaster for the future of nuclear power in the region.

Christian Ruhl2019-03-04T13:26:02-05:00February 20, 2019|
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