Crews will disable more than 12 miles of buried drain tile to bring wetlands back to the 794-acre Antioch site.

Mini-forests and reborn boulevards took top honors in a citywide design contest, though no funding plan exists yet.

Ten more miles of the tri-state trail should open by next spring, planners say, but Portage and Gary segments remain stuck.

A branded I-35 flyway idea fizzled, but Iowa, Illinois and Missouri keep seeding roadsides for monarchs anyway.

Kids tagged live monarchs and released them at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum's Flutter Into Fall, part science lesson, part farewell.

Park No. 382 at 81st and Halsted sat vacant for over five decades, doubling as a dumping ground and parking lot.

Four eggs from Shedd's 30-year-old shark Cleo are headed to Indonesia, where wild zebra sharks have nearly vanished.

Ron Hoskin's Pike County farm was ground zero for red crown rot in 2018. Eight years later, he's still losing bushels to it.

The nation's longest asphalt jump line opens Saturday at the former slag dump, funded by a $1.1 million community fundraising push.

An 800-signature petition backs turning the shuttered school into parkland, but Evanston Township High School wants the site too.

A new framework plan pairs a footbridge over the North Slip with a gathering space honoring South Side steelworkers.

Hegewisch's Wolf Lake gets an ADA-accessible pier and kayak launch, plus free poles for 300 kids Saturday.

Tilton Park could get new turf, dugouts, and a splash of drainage relief for Kyte Creek if a second state grant bid lands this time.