News from around the community includes items from Elmhurst, Franklin Park, Bolingbrook, La Grange and Darien.

When I became serious about birding in the 1990s, I wasn’t thinking about milestone birds. Then they started creeping up. The ...

NORMAL — Illinois State football has received a $2.5 million donation from an anonymous former Redbirds quarterback, the school announced Tuesday, Dec. 23.

For nearly 40 years, internationally acclaimed Chicago artist Tony Fitzpatrick ended the year with a special exhibition.

As a professional dancer, I've always been grounded, but the earth is rumbling, and I am uncharacteristically unsteady. I'm ...

An escaped mandarin duck in Head of the Harbor attracts hundreds, causing traffic issues and prompting police to enforce ...

Find out how Texas investigators used high-tech DNA technology to solve the brutal 2016 rape and murder of a beloved member of a close community.

FREEBURG, Ill. — A Metro East family farm is reeling after avian influenza swept through its free-range chicken operation, wiping out hundreds of birds and leaving behind a field of feathers. Funk ...

Stacker compiled a list of the most commonly hunted migratory birds in Illinois using data from a report released by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service in August 2025. Duck and goose species are ranked ...

A “devastating” wave of bird flu has struck a Freeburg-area farm known for selling a variety of eggs from pasture-raised chickens, ducks, geese and guinea hens. “I was shocked at how fast it went ...

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