The primary draws to southern Illinois are the outdoor recreation activities in Shawnee National Forest, including hiking, ...

Here’s an inside look at the the state’s successful push to boost tourism across its inspirational southernmost region.

I had no idea that southern Illinois looked like that.” A growing number of visitors are discovering downstate as a travel destination amid recent efforts to entice more people to visit its lush ...

The eclipse began at 11:52 a.m. ET and continued through 3:02 p.m. ET, with the maximum coverage happening at 1:26 p.m. ET Gill warned people to not look directly at the sun or the eclipse.

Florida was not in the path to see the total solar eclipse, but the Sunshine State got to see a good bit of it. In Central Florida, the moon was covering as much of the sun as possible — about 58%.

Set sail on an extraordinary journey aboard the Douglas Mawson, a state-of-the-art expedition ship, to witness the longest total solar eclipse left this century which takes place on 2 August 2027.