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For decades, beavers were considered pests – trapped and shot on sight. Now the attitude towards nature's best engineers is changing, and farmers are working to bring them back.

Veterans Day programs were held throughout the area on Friday.

See election results, maps, county-by-county vote counts and more for Illinois’s races on Nov. 8, 2022.

Here’s everything you need to know to cast an informed vote in Tuesday’s municipal elections.

The $1.3 billion agency responsible for treating wastewater and providing stormwater management for Chicago and over 100 Cook County communities is on the ballot next Tuesday with four open commissioner seats.

Madras High honors three distinguished alumni, Local News, Madras local News, Breaking News alerts for Madras city.

Illinois Green Party candidates for the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, Toneal Jackson and Mark Buettner, filed their petitions to get on the ballot for the 2022 General Election on Monday (3/14/22). The MWRD, which occupies most of Cook County, plus a few townships outside of Cook County, is the Illinois Green Party’s only recognized district. So while most Green candidates around the state begin petitioning in April, MWRD candidates began collecting signatures in January, at the sam...

The Harmony Preserve project employs process-based restoration, a relatively low-tech approach that lets the Sprague — not construction equipment — do most of the work