Looking for to take some day-trips this summer with the kids? Here's what to know about all the major zoos in Illinois.

This summer Mairen Mannon is coaching up young volleyball players at a three-day camp. But she remembers when she was the ...

Check out all the fun planned for the Fourth of July holiday in Bloomington-Normal, McLean County and Central Illinois.

After less than two decades printing newspapers, the Journal Sentinel’s massive West Milwaukee facility is being repurposed ...

A third of the food grown worldwide depends on insects and other animals for pollination, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service ...

The Peoria Zoo in March welcomed a 5-year-old Grevy's zebra, born at White Oak Conservation Center in Florida. The zoo is asking for votes on a name.

An advocacy group with ties to Washington, D.C., is working to bring a national cruise line to the Illinois River that would make a stop in Peoria. The Illinois River Cities and Towns Initiative ...

The Peoria Zoo in March welcomed a 5-year-old Grevy's zebra, born at White Oak Conservation Center in Florida. The zoo is asking for votes on a name.

Brookfield Zoo Chicago opened its new Tropical Forests primate habitat Friday, featuring an expanded space for the zoo’s first troop of bachelor gorillas and endangered black-handed spider monkeys ...

The new Tropical Forests primate habitat features an expanded space for the zoo’s first troop of bachelor gorillas and ...

The Peoria Zoo is mourning the loss of Butch, a black-handed spider monkey and the oldest known member of his species, who was born in 1973 and lived at the zoo since 1981.

The Peoria Zoo has welcomed a new Grevy's zebra, born at the White Oak Conservation Center in Florida, and is hosting a public naming contest to help name the young male, with all proceeds ...