Route 66 extends nearly 180 miles across the Texas Panhandle. About 20 miles east of the border, the town of Adrian ...

Illinois has plenty of natural wonders, but there’s one that stands head and shoulders above the rest like a towering white pine – aptly named White Pines Forest State Park in Mount Morris.

The United States government promised the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation about 1,280 acres of Illinois reservation in an 1829 ...

Mother Nature brought cooler weather and rain for large area of High Plains, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.

A team of about 60 researchers are spending six weeks in the Great Plains chasing hail. It's a first-of-its-kind giant ...

Illinois' public universities are underfunded, forcing tuition hikes and cuts that threaten access and affordability for ...

Kendall Opsal, left, and Kiarra King, both 18 and headed to college soon, received money for college Saturday, June 7, 2025, ...

An air quality map ... Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan, also experienced unhealthy air earlier in the week. Some air quality alerts remained in effect Friday evening, including in northern ...

The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency declared an Air Pollution Action Day today in the Chicago Metropolitan area due to elevated particle pollution caused by Canadian wildfire smoke.

That includes states at or above the red view line on the map below. If you live along or near where the red view line reaches, you may only see the northern ... Kansas and Illinois as well.