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SWCD Conservation Education Announces Scholarship Winners
The Will-South Cook SWCD is pleased to announce the winners of the 2026 Conservation Education Scholarship Awards. These students will…
Farm Days Gone By
Keep your nose away! Who can still use one of these? Most farmers were also blacksmiths out of necessity. This…
Capitol News Illinois Illinois Grows Millions of Bushels of Soybeans. Why Aren’t We Eating Them?
By Tara Sun Medill Illinois News Bureau CHICAGO — Inside a factory on Chicago’s North Side, the smell of simmering…
Peotone Ceremony Honors Fallen Service Members
By Andrea Arens Residents gathered at the Peotone Cemetery on Memorial Day as American Legion Post 392 hosted the community’s…
Public Views Planned Wilmington-Peotone Road Upgrades
By Andrea Arens Residents had an opportunity on May 20 to learn more about a proposed roadway improvement project along…
Fire in Unincorporated Plainfield Renders Structure Uninhabitable, No Injuries Reported
Photo courtesy of the Plainfield Fire Protection District Plainfield — On May 31, 2026, at approximately 7:55 a.m., the Plainfield…
Capitol News Illinois — POWER Act data center regulation won’t move forward this spring
Rep. Robyn Gabel, D-Evanston, and Sen. Ram Villivalam, D-Chicago, speak at a rally for the POWER Act, a bill…
Millsdale Road Railroad Crossing to Close June 1-2 for Repairs
Millsdale Road will be closed at the Union Pacific railroad crossing, located between IL Route 53 and Centerpoint Way, beginning…
I-80 Lane Closures over Four Consecutive Weekends
The Illinois Department of Transportation announced that bridge deck repairs and pavement patching on Interstate 80 between Wheeler Avenue and…
Illinois 50 Bridge Repairs in Monee Begin June 8
The Illinois Department of Transportation announced that a project to repair the bridge that carries Illinois 50 (Governors Highway) over…
Caton Farm/I-55 Bridge Repairs Begin June 1
The Illinois Department of Transportation announced today repairs to the bridge carrying Caton Farm Road over Interstate 55, in Joliet,…
Invasive Carp Trap Installed at Rock Run Rookery Preserve
A one-way trap has been installed in a channel that links the Forest Preserve District’s Rock Run Rookery Preserve lake to the…