Chronic flooding has forced people in southern Illinois to return farmland to the Mississippi’s floodplain, and to reflect on what it means to live with the river. Here & Now 's Chris Bentley reports.

Sioux City is getting some help for a project to beef up the Big Sioux River Levee system. The Iowa Homeland Security and ...

By a vote of 6 to 1, Rock Island City Council on Monday approved an ordinance to expand the Parkway/I-280 TIF district.

LaSalle Canyon in Starved Rock State Park near Oglesby, Illinois, is the kind of place that makes you question whether you’re still in the Prairie State or if you’ve somehow teleported to some ...