Rockford is home to a lot of public art installations. This summer, a group of students is adding even more through the ...

Purple martins roost in large numbers of hundreds of thousands of individuals to prepare for their annual migration to South ...

This heron is the world's most widely distributed species of its kind, found on every continent except for Australia and Antarctica. But it's been endangered in Illinois since the 1970s as the ...

Future of national public lands is precarious, but Americans across demographic and ideological lines value parks: ‘people champion their parks.’ ...

Planning a cross-country road trip? Bookmark this list of the top U.S. attractions, state by state. The United States of attractions Did you know the United States is the third largest country in the ...

Beaches might be the first thing that comes to mind when you think about Florida or California but likely not when contemplating Iowa, Nebraska, or the Dakotas. Yet every state has stellar beaches.

Green Bottom Wildlife Management Area Located 15 miles northeast of Huntington, this 1,096-acre area along the Ohio River is one of West Virginia’s most popular and productive birding sites. It’s also ...

Nestled in the upscale village of Glencoe on Chicago’s North Shore, this beach offers the kind of lakefront experience that ...

An unusual bird that has become a local celebrity in Kent over the past few months was gifted a more permanent home in the city.

Smith said her own parents are fully Black. However, her husband’s father is Black and his mother is white with blonde hair and blue eyes - which seems to be the answer as to why the little ones ...

A Greater Roadrunner zoomed into view and hopped atop one of the tee boxes to survey its surroundings. I focused my ...

Magic Johnson revealed that Larry Bird was the only white player widely respected in Black communities, calling him the only opponent he ever feared.