Four of Illinois' 40 native snake species are venomous, according to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

An international collaboration between William & Mary scientists and colleagues at the University of Oxford has discovered that the brown recluse makes extra-strong silk by spinning loops into each ...

The governor of Illinois is setting out on a tough sales job: convincing voters to replace the state’s flat income-tax rate with a graduated rate that would hit the wealthy the hardest.

IUWBB flat vs. Illinois in letdown loss. Indiana Head Coach Teri Moren during the Indiana versus Illinois women's basketball game at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025.© Rich ...

ILLINOIS (WCIA) — There upwards of 3,700 species of spiders in the United States, and more than 500 of these live in Illinois, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. But which of ...

A southern Illinois man awakened to find a spider in his bed, and in a panic, ran through a glass door outside his home, police told FoxNews.com.

Sales have been ramping up steadily since Illinois legalized recreational marijuana in January. Through November, the state has generated $582 million in recreational weed sales.

Only two spiders in the metro-east and St. Louis region fall into this category. Here’s what to know about medically significant spider species near southwestern Illinois.

Are wolf spiders common in Illinois? Illinois is home to at least 47 of the approximately 2,300 wolf spider species around the world, according to the Forest Preserve of DuPage County.

Illinois’s flat tax may have made sense in 1970, but it’s preventing the state from capturing the huge gains made by the wealthy since then.

MONMOUTH, Ill. (AP) -- If you live in northern Illinois and aren't too frightened of eight-legged beasties, Professor Ken Cramer would greatly appreciate some spiders from your attic, basement or ...

An Illinois man allegedly lied about a flat tire before kidnapping a 22-year-old Wisconsin woman in February before he was arrested last week.