Registration is open for the Tour of the Mississippi River Valley (TOMRV), back this year after a two-year hiatus. The ride ...

As of Feb. 11, the Mississippi River in Rock Island, Illinois was measured at 4.60 feet. The historical normal stage is 5.20 ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has halted a key project meant to defend the Great Lakes from invasive carp, citing federal funding ...

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker humorously proclaimed the renaming of Lake Michigan to "Lake Illinois" and the annexation of ...

Research shows that across the globe, rivers that freeze are freezing later and melting earlier, and that includes the ...

Well, the governor of Illinois had an important announcement regarding his own renaming of long-established geographical ...

On Feb. 4, 1846, a year and a half after the deaths of Joseph Smith and Hyrum Smith, the first families left Nauvoo, Illinois ...

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources has scheduled public eagle-watching events across the region through March 7.  Certain Illinois state parks and locations, including Starved Rock State ...

On the upper Mississippi, which stretches from the river's headwaters in northern Minnesota to Cairo, Illinois, south of St. Louis, the calmer, shallower offshoots of the river known as the ...