Cicadas have been around for weeks in Cincinnati and Southwest Ohio. So, their time is nearly up, right? Here's when they ...

If private landowners don’t remove invasives alongside natural areas, species like buckthorn will persist in forest preserves ...

Environmental officials said the pollutants from the smoke will be sticking around the area through at least Friday at midnight. Most of the Chicago ... for northern and northeast Illinois and ...

The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency declared an Air Pollution Action Day today in the Chicago Metropolitan ... impact on particulate levels in the northern third of Illinois, with Orange ...

Environmental officials said the pollutants from the smoke will be sticking around the area through at least Thursday. The Illinois ... Wisconsin and northern Iowa. The map also showed purple ...

Lawmakers voted along party lines Saturday to pass House Bill 3363, which would create the “Office of State Public Defender” that would primarily be responsible for providing public defender offices ...

Sixty-five miles southwest of Chicago ... around the world and terrestrial ecosystems developed. At the time, this area was swampy and tropical, and home to various organisms like the Illinois ...

While cicadas are harmless, the pests that are drawn to them can bite and cause a rash. What to know about the oak leaf itch ...

Memorial Day is Monday, and many parades and memorials are taking place in Lake and McHenry counties to honor our fallen ... fluttering from the backs of bikes, the northern Illinois ride will go from ...

A dust storm hit Normal, Illinois, causing the NWS ... Warnings quickly expanded to include several counties in the Chicago area, including Kendall, northern LaSalle, northwestern Will, southern ...

Altgeld Hall at Northern Illinois ... of teachers in Illinois and around the nation that educating the masses was necessary. Among the key events in Illinois was the gathering of a newly formed State ...