The Giant City State Park Visitors Center is hosting an “Explore the Southern Illinois Outdoors” event in October ...

The Southern Illinois region is littered with former coal mine lands; and with them, coal mining towns that have dried up in recent times. Some towns, such as Dowell and Carrier Mills, are seeing ...

Two Heartland projects from southern Illinois have been awarded an “Energizing Rural Communities Prize” from the U.S.

A sundown town [...] is an entire community (or even county) that for decades was ‘all white’ on purpose," researchers write ...

For the outdoor enthusiast, Southern Illinois has it all — hiking, biking, camping, birdwatching, foraging, hunting, climbing ...

Evanston’s City Council is scheduled to vote Monday to approve a nearly $10 million project to upgrade Green Bay Road from ...

Though it may still feel like summer outside in the Chicago area, days continue to get shorter as the seasons are changing, ...

Every Illinois congressional seat is up for election this year, but some are more competitive than others. The big picture: ...

Those within the city of Chicago ... in central Illinois that are expected to offer the best views of fall foliage in the region late next month. Residents in the southern third of the state ...

Gilgal Sculpture Garden in Salt Lake City is a unique and bizarre hidden gem featuring original sculptures and engraved stones.