It’s been just over a year since Northern Illinois University closed its outdoor education campus high above the Rock River in Oregon, Illinois. While its future is still in limbo, a group called Together for Taft is making progress in its effort to bring it back as an environmental education center. WNIJ’s Under Rocks podcast team stopped by the group’s fundraiser recently, which was held across the river from the shuttered campus.

Rockford Restaurant Week begins today and runs though February 8th.

The Sycamore School District has hired a new superintendent. Peter Medlin has more…

Welcome to Poetically Yours. Poetically Yours features poems by northern Illinois poets and a few from other states. Today’s featured poet is Susan Goldberg.

A new analysis from the Union of Concerned Scientists shows that data centers in Illinois could account for 72% of the growth in electricity demand by 2030. But new legislation could help to address those costs.

It’s hard for almost any school to find enough teachers. WNIJ’s Peter Medlin reports on a Rockford middle school where staffing challenges are worse than ever…and the teachers left are feeling burnt out.

The annual Woodstock Groundhog Days celebrates the city's role in the 1993 movie starring Bill Murray and directed by Harold Ramis.

The vote gives the Rockford Education Association's bargaining team the authority to call a strike.

Christiansen spent 12 years as County Board Chairman.

The exhibition Mapping Territories: The Art of Exile in Pilsen traces work created by printmakers in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood over the last century.