Early relatives of modern horsetails, called calamites, grew in dense thickets in wetter areas. The understory was populated with smaller ferns and club mosses ... forest fossils have been found in ...

Isaac Trotter, a reporter for 247 Sports and CBS Sports, caught up with Jakucionis, and the 18-year-old guard spoke on Illinois’ European-centered offseason and how his experience may have ...

Illinois has become the latest blue state to ensure transgender athletes can play girls sports. Republicans in the state are aggressively trying to change that. The Illinois High School ...

Illinois football had one player picked in the 2025 NFL Draft, the fifth consecutive season the Fighting Illini had at least one name called on draft weekend. Pat Bryant was selected in the third ...

Four girls, as young as 4 years old, were killed when a driver plowed through an Illinois after-school building Monday afternoon, authorities said. The driver allegedly crashed an SUV into the ...

Annie Rice/AP Share The state’s first confirmed measles case of the year was detected in southern Illinois, the Illinois Department of Public Health reported Wednesday. The department said an ...

Since 2020, 33 downstate Illinois counties have passed referendums to explore the formation of a new state. Illinois Gov. has called the action 'a stunt.' A bill throwing out the welcome mat to ...

A reported ARCH Medical helicopter crash left three crew members injured in Hartford, Illinois – near St. Louis – Thursday night. According to reports from KMOV, the crash took place around 9 ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) – Illinois men’s basketball has its second transfer portal pickup of the 2025 offseason. California transfer Andrej Stojakovic committed to the Illini on Monday.

Illinois confirmed its first measles case of 2025 in an adult in the southern part of the state. The case is isolated and not considered an outbreak at this time. Health officials urge residents ...

Trilla, Ill. (AP) — A single-engine plane crashed in a field in central Illinois on Saturday, killing all four people on board. Coles County Coroner Ed Schniers said the victims were two women ...