Luke Yozze, 15, bagged a 22.5-pound turkey with a double beard on opening morning of illinois' first youth spring turkey ...

Behind the 'bribe, bully, buy' tactics of the United States and developed countries at the UN COP climate summits, with ...

Lincoln, a clean-shaven 22-year-old with the barest of formal schooling, had set out in 1831 to haul freight down the Mississippi River to New Orleans when he snagged his flatboat on the Sangamon ...

New Salem, a tiny central Illinois village where Lincoln spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, has fallen into disrepair.

Severe weather events in the Great Lakes region are disrupting bird migration, affecting habitats and nesting sites.

Illinois became the second state in the nation to offer subsidies to farmers for planting cover crops in the fall, an effort ...

The storms and tornadoes flattened homes, tore off roofs, collapsed a warehouse, decimated a church, and overturned trailers.

The layoffs are expected to eliminate nearly a quarter of HHS staff — 10,000 jobs through layoffs and another 10,000 workers who took early retirement and buyouts.

Gov. JB Pritzker signed a bill authorizing the Illinois Department of Natural Resources to transfer ownership of Shabbona Lake State Park to the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, which had been ...

A mix of outdoors stories from Illinois, including information on the spring trout fishing season that opens April 5.