Tour attendees walk on a trail to reach a historical site during a walking and bus tour of Illinois Underground Railroad sites around the Beaubien Woods area Oct. 29, 2022, in Chicago.

In historic year for cicadas, Illinois is ‘the epicenter of everything great’ For the first time in more than 200 years, two different groups of periodic cicadas will emerge at the same time.

The McHenry County Historical Society and Museum in Union has introduced a new interactive way to explore the history of ...

This past school year, for the first time, Illinois schools were required to teach a unit on the experience and history of ...

The historic 2024 cicada emergence will see two broods of cicadas emerging this spring, ... Here's a map of what to expect in Illinois, according to data from the USDA Forest Service.

Even during a non-historic periodical cicada brood reemergence, there are still a lot of cicadas. It's possible that around 100 cicadas can emerge out of a single square yard of land.

The archaeologists continue their mission to uncover the physical history of Brooklyn, Illinois, and the free people who built it. Archaeologists continue to dig up new evidence of a historic ...