Momentum has been building in Illinois to research the state’s extensive Underground Railroad sites and decide how to ...

Mixed-media artist Indu Varma of Sackville, N.B., looks at birds from a different perspective. Varma, who grew up in India, ...

From the Windy City to southern Illinois, there's plenty of organized baseball to see around the state.

Antagonist Café, Piasa Bird, This Week in History – Movie Stardom. We visit Antagonist Café in Soulard, located inside an Art Deco landmark built by the WPA agency during the Great Depression ...

The present Piasa Bird painting is perched on the bluffs at Piasa Park, which was built in 1998. Dave Stevens was the artist, but community members could make monetary donations to the project and ...

Retiring Alton Middle School art teacher Mimi Almonroeder stands in front of a paper mache version of the Piasa Bird that students made over the last school year. About 50 students in four ...

ST. LOUIS–Alton’s Piasa Park is slated for redevelopment, complete with a new observation deck, more parking, and a state-of-the-art Byway Discovery Center. The Great Rivers & Routes Tourism Bureau ...

The new plans will maintain the famed Piasa bird that was painted in the late 1990s.

The redevelopment of Piasa Park in Alton includes a new Byway Discovery Center tourist center, shown in this rendering. The "Piasa Bird" painting can be seen on the limestone cliff to the left in ...

A modern-day painting of the Piasa Bird welcomes people to Alton, Illinois at the edge of the Mississippi River. Some upgrades could soon move forward around it to improve the visitor experience.

The meeting is open to the public and comments are welcome. The much-anticipated project calls for the redesign and redevelopment of Piasa Park – home to the painting of the Piasa Bird on the ...

The redesign includes landscaping, water retention ponds, parking with access for motor coach buses, outdoor gathering areas, interpretive panels, and kiosks, and a new Piasa Bird observation deck. In ...