January 7, 2026

January 21-23 join Illinois LICA's Annual Convention & Members' Meeting in Bloomington, IL

Bringing together land improvement contractors and industry partners for education sessions, networking opportunities, and fresh insights into the latest innovations.

Registration is open ~ explore the details HERE Join Illinois-LICA | Top Contractor Membership Benefits & Resources


January 5, 2026

EPA’s SWIFT initiative works directly with drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater utilities, technical assistance providers, and other water sector stakeholders across the Nation to increase system resilience to natural hazards and disasters. Water sector utilities can request free technical assistance HERE


December 16, 2025

The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) has launched the Shared Waters, Shared Future: Northeastern Illinois Regional Water Supply Sustainability virtual workshop series. This five-part workshop series tackles today's most pressing water challenges. Don't miss the first workshop, Water Utility & Local Government Collaboration, on Wednesday, February 18. Visit the workshop series webpage to register and learn more about future topics


December 10, 2025

Kane DuPage Soil & Water Conservation District 23rd Annual Soil Erosion & Sediment Control Seminar

Green Infrastructure

Wednesday, January 28, 2026 9am - 2pm includes lunch Earn 5 PDH credits $50 per person ($65 after January 15) @ Elgin Community College Agenda & Registration


December 4, 2025

JULIE’s Positive Response is a system that member utility companies will use to communicate the status of a locate request notification to the excavator through a series of codes.  The state law requires that all member utility companies respond to every locate request notification they receive.
Starting on January 1, 2026, all responses must be submitted through the Positive Response system. LEARN MORE