Free music, canoeing and campfire singalongs hit Cook County preserves this weekend, with Funkadesi marking 30 years on stage.

Adult monarchs and their offspring have filled Tawny Oaks prairies in Edelstein, fueling up for a journey that could span 2,500 miles.

The Litter Caterpillars spent $10,000 of their own money on two Englewood lots — now they're battling illegal dumpers to keep it green.

Crews are finishing courts and a walking loop behind Sterling's Elevate Youth Center, with the gardens moving in 2027.

The sun will drop perfectly between Loop skyscrapers this Tuesday, thanks to Chicago's cardinally oriented street grid.

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.