Illinois state legislators joined the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation on Thursday in support of a bill that would transfer a state park in DeKalb County back to the tribal nation on whose historic ...

Citizens can help monitor the prairie and bison, and Native Americans can reconnect to their roots under a community science ...

Nearly 200 years after Native Americans were forced out of Illinois, the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation has become the first federally recognized tribal nation in the state after a decision from the U ...

The greater prairie chickens have begun their mating ritual on restored grassland habitat some 220 miles south of Chicago, and this year the showmanship matches the stakes for Illinois’ dwindling ...

Illinois, nicknamed the Prairie State by early settlers, was once dominated by a tallgrass prairie ecosystem. Prairies are characterized by deep, fertile soils that are the result of thousands of ...

WHEATON, Ill. (WLS) -- Matthew Grover appeared in bond court at the DuPage County Courthouse on Wednesday morning after being arrested for attacking a woman on the Illinois Prairie Path Monday ...

According to geographers Jerome Dobson and Joshua Campbell, Illinois is second only to Florida as the flattest state in the Union. They say Kansas is "flatter than a pancake" and Illinois is flatter ...

DEKALB COUNTY, Ill. — Nearly 200 years after Native Americans were forced out of Illinois, the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation has become the first federally recognized tribal nation in the state after ...