With several family members buried there, Tammy Gibson said she is very passionate about conditions at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip. Families with loved ones interred there “want to make sure they’re ...

Oak is not commonly thought of as tough enough for our Prairie climate. But there is one species that excels, even in our cold winters. The only oak indigenous to the Canadian Prairies, the bur is ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WBEZ, the NPR station in Chicago. If you wanted to point to a tree that can handle climate change, you might start with the bur ...

History is alive and well in this darling village near the border between Michigan and Indiana, with a lovely resort nearby ...

Plano's Parks and Recreation department cited a project to preserve the city's oldest tree as one of the department's top highlights of 2021. The quadricentennial (400 years) bur oak tree in Bob ...

For the next few months, Katrina Quint has one request for visitors to the Lincoln Park Zoo: Look up. Across from the white-cheeked gibbon enclosure sits a great, sprawling bur oak tree, about 45 feet ...

A former backhoe operator at the historic Burr Oak Cemetery was sentenced to three years probation Friday for desecrating bodies and removing skeletal remains to sell more graves to unsuspecting ...

Does your oak tree have brown leaves? If it is a Bur Oak tree, then it may be affected by Bur Oak Blight. The Extension office has seen several pictures over the last couple of weeks of Bur Oak Blight ...