“Prairie restoration efforts will help keep these ... Hollow plot will one day be an open space – for the people of Illinois to explore. It also could be a home for many different critters ...

City officials Tuesday questioned the value of a project to establish a natural vegetative buffer along Spring Creek in areas of J.B. Hunt Park.

"There's really only a few thousand acres of tallgrass prairie like this left in Illinois," said research scientist Elizabeth Bach. But when Bach rolls over rolling hills of the Nachusa Grasslands ...

LOCKPORT, IL —After 40,000 hours of work over six years, the Forest Preserve District of Will County has finished a major ecosystem restoration project at Prairie Bluff Preserve and Lockport ...

Enter Northwestern’s Prairie Cats Ecological Restoration Club ... Chen said when native vegetation disappears, Illinois wildlife and pollinators suffer. Reintroducing those species can help ...

On Monday, players and future pioneers tested their skills in "The first 100 yards" with help from the U.S. Army. A potential candidate to fill Senator Dick Durbin's seat takes her name out of ...

A news release outlining the results from Cowdery’s research at Glacial Ridge – site of the largest prairie-wetland restoration project in U.S. history – wasn’t released until May 2021 ...