Fans of the classic Christmas special "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" may not realize star Burl Ives is an Illinois native.

A federal judge late Friday ordered some of the nation’s largest poultry companies to pay for the cleanup of the Illinois ...

On Friday, a federal judge ordered poultry companies to pay cleanup costs for the Illinois River Watershed in the latest ruling in the State of Oklahoma’s decades-long poultry lawsuit. The order also ...

A judge overseeing a 20-year-old lawsuit has held major poultry corporations responsible for phosphorus pollution in the Illinois River watershed.

The River City Construction Foundation has raised over $50,000 to fund trades-based programs in 17 local area schools, including the Woodruff Career and Technical Center, which received a check ...

Arkansas poultry growers will face limits on the amount of poultry litter they can use as fertilizer in the Illinois River ...

A special master will be appointed to oversee an extensive remediation plan to clean up pollution caused by chicken waste in ...

A plane carrying the Johns Hopkins football team from Baltimore to Minneapolis for its NCAA Division III playoff semifinal at UW-River Falls was forced to make an unscheduled landing in Columbus, Ohio ...

From Northern Lights over Lake Michigan and summer heat waves to snowy L platforms and Chicago's response to federal immigration agents, our photojournalists documented every moment.

The longtime Southwest Michigan getaway of Lee Daniels, a former Illinois House Speaker and one of the state’s most influential Republican leaders of the last half-century, sold for just under $7 ...

The Peoria Rivermen helped a tiny school in Pekin get 80 kids and staff to its annual Education Day game, arranging and ...

Tyson’s warning on poultry contracts tied to an Oklahoma lawsuit has Arkansas officials and growers raising concerns over ...