An Illinois man was killed after his vehicle struck a tree in unincorporated Gurnee over the weekend.What we knowLake County sheriff’s deputies responded to a crash early Saturday morning near Stearns ...

Illinois’ commercial fossil trade is alive and well thanks to collectors who are motivated by money, science and the hunt — and who test the outer bounds of legality.

Expect sunny skies. The high will be 29°. Good air quality (0-50) Primary pollutant PM2.5 5.0 μg/m³ Pressure is the weight of the air in the atmosphere. It is normalized to the standard ...

“Mazon Creek fossils are extraordinarily important to studying the evolution of vertebrates,” Mann said. “A lot of these lineages survived through to today.” Perhaps Illinois’ most ...

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A large beaver spotted in Bubbly Creek on the southwest branch of the Chicago River has sparked a citywide naming effort after a viral Reddit post from the nonprofit Urban Rivers. Conservationists say ...