Chronic flooding has forced people in southern Illinois to return farmland to the Mississippi’s floodplain, and to reflect on what it means to live with the river.

The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency has issued an Air Pollution Action Day for Wednesday July 16th for the greater Chicago metropolitan area through Wednesday night.

The air quality is poor today in northern Illinois due to migrating Canadian wildfire smoke. See the AQI in your area.

Peoria spreads along the Illinois River with a skyline that will surprise you with its city feel. This river town is bigger than most on our list, but it still has that special connection to the water ...

That’s Shawnee National Forest for you—a sprawling 289,000-acre paradise tucked away in southern Illinois near Herod that somehow remains one of America’s most underrated natural wonders.