My history instructor at College of DuPage had previously taught in California, but moved back to Illinois. As a 19-year-old ...

Hidden away in the northwestern corner of Illinois, where the landscape suddenly decides flat is boring, lies a cascading ...

From the best restaurants to the most amazing state parks and everything in between, Kansas is a place filled with magic that ...

Now, about eight of these gently scented plants are starting to bloom in a wet depression in the front yard. As July ...

Certain trees, like figs, crape myrtles, calamondins, ginkgos, and Japanese maples, can thrive when planted in pots rather ...

“Sea of Grass,” written by Hage and former Star Tribune environmental reporter Josephine Marcotty, hit bookstores just before ...

As the growing tide of travelers strains housing, water and hot spots, protests and measures to lessen the effects of ...

The mineral-rich Arctic island is open for tourism. Locals want to show what makes Greenland unique beyond a recent ...

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

Farm strawberry-picking gives a friendly reminder that nature’s wild fruit will begin soon. Most raspberries, blackberries ...

Tony Kaster’s prairie stretches across 80 acres in Marysville Township, an hour west of downtown Minneapolis. On a recent afternoon, a goldfinch flits past a field of golden alexanders. A great blue ...

The North American prairie rivals the Amazon rainforest in its biological diversity, and it’s disappearing even faster.