The annual Tom Nauman Memorial Midwest Morel Fest & Burger Bash takes place in Ottawa, Illinois on Saturday, May 2.

Rock River Current's Kevin Haas discusses the fate of a historic Rockford building and proposed data center safeguards.

Hundreds of advocates and organizers headed to Springfield this week for Environmental Lobby Day in Illinois.

Aurora City Council voted on a suite of new regulations for data centers that come to the city. The meeting on March 24 aligned with the end of a moratorium the city placed on data centers.

Local food system organizations have until the end of the month to apply for a local food infrastructure grant.

Tallgrass prairies used to dominate the Illinois landscape before European settlement and corn and soy agriculture. While there are very few prairies left in the state, what remains requires a special management technique: fire.

This year’s legislative session is well underway in Illinois. One bill would ban wildlife killing contests in the state.

Stacy Iwanicki is retiring from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources after 39 years. WNIJ's environment reporter Jess Savage asked her to reflect on her time with the department and at her headquarters, Volo Bog State Natural Area in Lake County.

Illinois was the No. 1 soybean producer in the U.S. last year. That’s amid rising input costs and despite historic drought conditions in the state.

Millions of rural Americans get their water from districts that serve 10,000 people or less. Thousands of those systems are failing to meet federal standards.