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Setting prairies ablaze in springtime is key to restoring damaged ecosystems, conservationists say
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoOn a recent weekday, short but mighty flames began consuming an expanse of tallgrass in Illinois'...
The End of Coal Culture
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 7 months agoRomeoville, Illinois This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. The parade wouldn’t start for another...
Fall foliage in Illinois: When will leaves change color? Here are peak times, best locations
Journal Star via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPEORIA— The Illinois Office of Tourism and state Department of Natural Resources have set up a Fall...
Olympia too much for Prairie Central; WFC, Lexington triumph
Daily Leader via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSTANFORD — Prairie Central grabbed a lead in its first at bat but was unable to hold on as host...
Kent State University tabs CS8 rushing leader as head football coach
The State Journal-Register via Yahoo News· 1 year agoKenni Burns, a 2003 Sacred Heart-Griffin High School graduate, was hired by Kent State University to...
This New Glamping Hotel in an Unlikely Destination Has 3 Lakes, Tons of Boating and Fishing, and 20...
Travel+Leisure via Yahoo News· 2 years agoCome to Illinois's newly opened Sankoty Lakes for the fishing, stay for sunsets. Courtesy of Sankoty...
A battle simmers in Illinois over plans to pipe in and store millions of tons of planet-warming...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOn a subfreezing day in January, John Feltham drove his two-seat Kawasaki utility vehicle over neatly furrowed fields glistening with snow. There were deer and coyote tracks, black crows flapping ...
Pontiac needs extra frame to dispatch Central Catholic
Daily Leader via Yahoo Sports· 12 months agoBLOOMINGTON — Missed opportunities early nearly cost Pontiac in its Illini Prairie Conference...
New PBS documentary features Menominee Nation reconnecting with the buffalo
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 6 months agoKESHENA – Guy Reiter, whose Menominee name is Anahkwet, is featured at the end of an 18-minute...
Behind the scenes at Nachusa Grasslands, where animals from mice to bison find stability
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOn a hilltop about 95 miles west of Chicago grow plant species that have been there for hundreds, if...