Garbage truck drivers approved a new contract with the Chicago Area Refuse Haulers Association Sunday, a Teamsters representative said. Teamsters locals 731 and 301, representing about 3,000 ...

Three people, of which two were police officers and one a firefighter, were injured when a garbage truck exploded in a Chicago suburb last Friday. The police officers and firefighter were ...

However, when it’s raining flaming trash there’s probably a problem like a garbage truck explosion. Chicago drivers recently felt the pain of burning trash. A garbage truck explodes sending ...

Police and firefighters responded to a call of a flaming garbage truck in Arlington Heights, a suburb of Chicago, on Friday at around 4 p.m. Not long after first responders arrived at the scene ...

Footage captured by NBC Chicago's Sky 5 helicopter showed debris scattered along the street as a tow truck prepared to remove the garbage truck. Multiple first responders were nearby when the ...

Startling footage captured the moment a garbage truck exploded in Arlington Heights, Illinois, leaving three first responders injured. At around 4 p.m. on Friday, the Arlington Heights Police and ...

technology and in collaboration with Chicago’s existing refuse truck vendors. The city is saving 2,688 gallons of gas by running these electric trash eaters on 60 mile routes. “We are ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --A garbage truck crashed into a garage Tuesday morning in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, damaging a classic car when the garage collapsed. Witnesses said the truck was collecting ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A hazmat response was called and a driver was rescued by firefighters after a garbage truck crashed into a semi Thursday afternoon on the city's Southwest Side. The crash happened ...

Curious City listener Diane Judge thinks a lot about what she throws away. The longtime Ravenswood resident composts what she can, recycles what she can and consigns to the garbage bin only what ...

The job is full of heavy lifting, tight turns and stinky smells. But the members of this all-women garbage crew say their bond keeps them going. Editor’s note: This story originally published in ...