The primary draws to southern Illinois are the outdoor recreation activities in Shawnee National Forest, including hiking, ...

I had no idea that southern Illinois looked like that.” A growing number of visitors are discovering downstate as a travel destination amid recent efforts to entice more people to visit its lush ...

Champaign County Fair Queen Sophia Hartke, back left, with Ford County Fair Queen Charley Ulrich and 2025 Miss Champaign ...

A geologist's vibrant maps reveal how the Mississippi River has wandered across its valley, making it look like a colorful, ...

"At a Trump rally in October, Stephen Miller, the administration’s architect of immigration policies, proclaimed: 'America is ...

WOLF LAKE. Ill. — Standing on the edge of a 300-foot limestone bluff in southern Illinois’ Shawnee National Forest, Machaela ...

Mississippi Today, in partnership with Rethink Mississippi (an initiative sponsored by the nonprofit Working Together ...

On his second day in office, President Donald Trump labeled O.F.C.C.P.’s efforts to enforce the 1964 Civil Rights Act illegal ...

The heat wave in late June was extreme in both its intensity– especially nighttime temperatures– and its duration, breaking 14 daily high and 88 daily high minimum temperature records across ...

Tucked away in the embrace of the Shawnee National Forest sits Makanda, Illinois – a pocket-sized paradise that might be the ...

“Last year homelessness increased 116% in the state of Illinois,” Doug Kenshol, co-founder of the Illinois Shelter Alliance, ...

In April and May, eight people in southern Illinois contracted measles. But with no new cases identified since May 22, ...