native plants

Wild Ones of Rock River Valley is a northern Illinois native plant movement. They promote environmentally sound landscaping practices to preserve…

One man’s prairie is another man’s patch of weeds. That’s the debate that is unfolding in DeKalb over a proposed rewrite of the city’s “weeds…

Mosquitoes have been plentiful -- and voracious -- this summer, thanks to heavy rains that have created perfect breeding habitats for the blood-suckers.…