A special live event of Wheel of Fortune will take place Tuesday, October 14, at the Coronado Theatre in Rockford.

You might associate bees with lush summer gardens and meadows. But this fall, one northern Illinois prairie is abuzz with the pollinators preparing to head underground for the winter. WNIJ’s environment reporter Jess Savage visited Nachusa Grasslands in Lee County to understand this special habitat.

The restoration of Beyer Stadium at Maybelle Blair Park is the next phase of a six-acre global campus in Rockford.

Nearly 100 Illinois high schools are part of an initiative to strengthen civics education. WNIJ’s Peter Medlin went to their annual conference to talk about how Democracy Schools can help when three-fourths of Americans think democracy is under serious threat.

On Saturday, over 100 people protested ICE arrests in West Chicago. Just as the first protestors arrived, so did ICE agents. Peter Medlin reports…

An Northern Illinois University physics educator knows that all it takes for kids to get excited about science is their natural curiosity about the world around them.“I've compared it to to listening to a song in a language you don't understand. You can you can hear the melody. You can appreciate the beauty. But if you learn that language, then all of a sudden you know what the song is about. You understand the subtext. So, we can appreciate the world around us, just like that song, but it's written in the language of math and science."It’s here on a new Teachers' Lounge!

A new book about Abraham Lincoln tells his story through photos of artifacts that help illustrate who he was and the impact that he had.

Jen Kober will share life experiences and comedy in Mahomet, IL on Saturday and Janesville, WI on Sunday.