Worried about common milkweed taking over your garden? Swamp milkweed, or red milkweed, is less aggressive but good for ...

There's much more to milkweed plants than you know. Discover fascinating milkweed facts about this butterfly garden staple.

Jon Hickey is enrolled in the Lac du Flambeau Band of the Anishinaabe Indians and follows tribal politics fairly closely. And ...

CARBONDALE — During the pandemic, Murphysboro native and former sportscaster Gary Martin shifted his focus from broadcasting to writing, resulting in Distant Times—a debut novella that ...

Duke Blue Devils coach and Illinois native, Jon Scheyer, played high school basketball for Glenbrook North. There, he was nicknamed "Jewish Jordan" and led the Spartans to an Illinois High School ...

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Hagaman said this is particularly important when planting native milkweed and native nectarine plants. “Monarchs lay their eggs only on milkweed plants and caterpillars only eat milkweed plants ...

Executive Director of the Native American Chamber of Commerce of Illinois. The Illinois Association of School Boards is currently opposed to the bill, as they argued it would be an expensive ...

The U.S. government is considering listing the monarch butterfly as a threatened species. Photo: Mert Alper Dervis/Anadolu via Getty Images ...

While milkweed is the only food source for monarch butterfly caterpillars ... Below are a few late-blooming plants native to North America that help feed butterflies — especially monarchs—at a crucial ...

That would be (state) “Seal on a Bedsheet,” the derisive moniker with which some have burdened the Illinois state flag, a gleaming white banner emblazoned with the state’s bald eagle-themed ...