The Illinois and Iowa Departments of Transportation are launching a study to evaluate the bridge's conditions, gather public ...

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

Lying on both banks of the Mississippi River, Minneapolis has a plethora of bridges that carry a couple of hundreds of ...

A project to consider the future of the Centennial Bridge is underway. The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) went over that work with Davenport City Council. The IDOT is in the first of ...

This week's Ken Bridges Texas History column is part 1 of a 2-part series exploring the disastrous Red River Expedition.

The Mississippi River ... journey was how small the river is where it starts in Minnesota, it’s just a trickling little stream.” Dan Faust from Pontiac, Illinois, wasn’t one of the ...

As a result, the Red River Expedition was also called the Freeman-Custis Expedition. The explorers, numbering 24 at this point, left from the Mississippi ... Ken Bridges is a writer ...

Illinois may be famous for its deep dish pizza, Cheap Trick, the Willis Tower, and the sock monkey, but the Prairie State is also a hotbed for sightings of cryptozoological ...

Fish, a gar and a catfish, both native to the Mississippi ... river by reconnecting secondary river channels, reforesting bottomland hardwood forests, seeding wetland plants and fixing bridges ...

Chicago will once again go all out for St. Patrick's Day this year with one of the city's most iconic traditions: The 2025 Chicago River Dyeing.

Now, the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) is taking the next step in addressing the aging infrastructure that ...