Christiana Freitag
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 4
- Latest publication
- Aug 26, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Yahoo
- Top 1K sites
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 6, 2026
Latest articles
Coal ash by Vermilion River raises alarms amid heavy rains, delays in erosion report (opens the original)
Read excerpt
For more than 70 years, Mike Camp has never lived more than 2 miles from the Vermilion River. Growing up on his family’s dairy and crop farms in Vermilion County in east-central Illinois, Camp spent his childhood and adult life swimming, fishing and canoeing along the meandering bends of the river’s Middle Fork. “We’ve floated the river our whole lives,” Camp said. He and his wife, Kristin, currently live less than a mile and a half from the river in Collison. They have spent more than a decade
As study shows pesticides drifting onto Illinois schools and parks, residents push for better tracking (opens the original)
Read excerpt
TREMONT, Ill. — On her 43 acres of woods and reclaimed native prairie in rural Tazewell County, Katie VandenBerg walked the edge of her property, inspecting a line of oaks bordered by miles of corn and soybean fields. The oak leaves are curled and stunted — damage she believes is tied to pesticide applications on nearby farms. Since buying the land three years ago, VandenBerg, whose family has lived in Tazewell County for seven generations, said she has “gone down a rabbit hole” trying to unders
Studies raise alarms as more warehouses are built near homes and schools in Illinois (opens the original)
Read excerpt
ELWOOD — For Stephanie Irvine, the latest proposal for a massive warehouse and logistics center in Will County came as a relief. The new plan, unveiled earlier this month, moves warehouses north of her property in Manhattan. But for Elwood resident Terri Papish, one of the proposed buildings now sits next to her home. “You literally have a building right on top of us,” Papish told officials with Kansas City-based NorthPoint Development during a July 8 Jackson Township community meeting. More tha
Law adds big cats, bears and primates to Illinois ban on traveling animal acts (opens the original)
Read excerpt
When Marc Ayers attended the Sangamon County Fair in New Berlin last year, he was on a mission to stop one attraction from returning to the state: the Banana Derby. Ayers, the Illinois state director for Humane World for Animals, said the welfare group has been tracking the show for years. When he went to see it firsthand, he watched in horror as two capuchin monkeys, Gilligan and Bert, dressed in children’s clothing, were tethered to the backs of dogs as they raced around the show ring, he reca
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
Top 1K sites
For Yahoo, the outlet · Measured Aug 1, 2026
Website popularity band, not a count of readers or article views.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.