Officials urged residents of the Chicago area not to touch -- or let their pets touch -- dead or sick birds as a bird flu ...

The largest concentrations of sick mergansers were found Saturday at North Avenue Beach and Oak Street Beach. Other birds ...

Over the weekend and early Monday morning, a large number of dead birds were seen washed up on numerous beaches along Lake Michigan in Chicago.

Hundreds of red-breasted mergansers have been affected by a bird flu outbreak on Chicago's Lake Michigan shoreline, raising ...

It’s time once again to dive into another round of quick takes on the people, places and events that were being talked about ...

Votes are being tallied in the Illinois flag contest, but the current flag has its fans and lawmakers could decide to keep it ...

From Hyde Park to Wilmette, wildlife monitors say they’ve discovered around 300 red-breasted mergansers dead or dying since ...

Just days after President Donald Trump's second inauguration, Ruby Robinson went to Detroit's immigration court to post a notice that a help desk his ...

A 'village where time stood still' sits just on the Illinois side of the Mississippi river and offers plenty of historical ...

A bald eagle that was hit by a car near Nevada has passed away. The Story County Sheriff's Office found the injured eagle on ...

Along the long road from American icon to endangered species and back again, the bald eagle — the national bird of the United ...

The American bald eagle is making a comeback. The birds of prey had been headed towards extinction, but conservation efforts ...