Though it may still feel like summer outside in the Chicago area, days continue to get shorter as the seasons are changing, meaning vivid fall colors will soon be visible. But the chances to see the ...

A teen has spent the last seven years creating a map of a fantasy city and even wrote travel guides and history books about ...

The course’s name was “The Poetry of Modern Rock Music.” The teacher’s name was Lyon Trainor. And it was one of the best high ...

As the world tries to mitigate agriculture's effect on the environment, much of the story can be found in the soils, which ...

As the world tries to mitigate agriculture’s effect on the environment, much of the story can be found in the soils, which stores and cycles nutrient elements of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus.

The word "atlas," may conjure images of giant books chock full of maps and a dizzying array of facts and figures. However, ...

In a new atlas, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor Jim Best used the latest research and visually intensive storytelling to highlight ...

Here’s a map of single-copy locations ... will go one-on-one with a faculty member on the University of Illinois campus. Today’s expert: JULIE CIDELL, head of the Department of Geography & Geographic ...

Illinois created the Commission on Equitable Public University Funding to address significant disparities in the college-going experience across lines of geography, race, ethnicity and income.

Peoria appears poised to take a different path forward on combatting homelessness than some of its smaller neighboring cities in the wake of a Supreme Court decision that ruled cities have a right ...

For years, a map of the US allegedly showing what will happen to the country if "we don't reverse climate change" has spread across social media. Snopes previously fact-checked this meme, which ...

In a setback for Illinois Democrats and Gov. JB Pritzker, the Illinois Supreme Court has upheld a downstate judge’s ruling that found unconstitutional a Democrat-passed law preventing the ...