SPRINGFIELD An Illinois Conservation Police investigation into the illegal use of bait while hunting deer and turkey in St. Clair County resulted in the
The new historic marker stands outside the Old State Capitol, where then Sen. Barack Obama launched his presidential bid on a brutally cold February day in 2007 but unlike Obama, Pritzker and the others who unveiled the marker on Wednesday made their remarks indoors.
Renovations to the Chicago History Museum in 2021 drove black-crowned night herons away from their annual breeding grounds. The birds have not returned, conservationists say.
Hunting deer with a rifle is still illegal in Illinois, but that will change Jan. 1 when administrative rules issued by the Department of Natural Resources will go into effect that will allow deer hunting with centerfire, single-shot rifles.