For those interested in viticulture, Baxter’s Vineyards and Winery – Illinois’ oldest winery – offers tastings of locally produced wines. Their specialty fruit wines, particularly those made from ...

For outdoor enthusiasts, Nauvoo’s location on the Mississippi River provides ample opportunities for recreation. The Great River Road, which follows the Mississippi, offers one of the most scenic ...

1923: Chicago’s first aquarium opened at Lincoln Park Zoo. The 150,000-square-foot building was designed to house 86 tanks ...

The summer cruise season has officially launched in Winona—with stories, music and river views leading the way.

Sixty-five miles southwest of Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones movie breaks up the flat, ...

A deadly practice row by a women's crew team on the North Branch on May 14 through Canada geese left dead goslings in its ...

An exhibition featuring work from incarcerated artists highlights links between environmental and climate injustice and the ...

High caution readings were found on 23 days last summer with only four corresponding with sewer system overflows, water ...

Historian Shermann “Dilla” Thomas debuts his new Chicago Reader column with a look at the city’s Catholic connections beyond ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Survivors of clergy sexual abuse amplified calls Tuesday for a global zero-tolerance policy from the new ...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark says it was too loud inside Gainbridge Fieldhouse for her to hear racial ...

Governor JB Pritzker and Illinois Representative Hoàn Huynh visited two Asian-owned businesses in Uptown to meet with ...