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A cold snap on the prairie last winter proved particularly devastating at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie in Wilmington, when a poorly performing heating system led to burst pipes and other damage.

WILMINGTON, Ill. — The entire educational staff at Midewin National Prairie was recently terminated amid the federal government’s cost-saving effort. Siobhan Peacy was working for Midewin for almost ...

WILMINGTON — Even the sound of my bike tires crunching along the crushed rock trail couldn’t drown out the melodious notes of an Eastern meadowlark singing. It was as if the yellow-breasted bird with ...

“It’s disorienting. And it just makes me feel like what I was doing didn’t matter,” says fired worker Abbey Hays. The U.S. Forest Service recently fired over 3,000 employees across the country. Twelve ...

Grab some snacks and enjoy these fun family flicks at a park in the city of Chicago and surrounding suburbs. Chicago Parent is Chicagoland’s trusted parenting hub since 1984. We connect families with ...

JOLIET, Ill. (AP) -- Almost as soon as work began to convert the former site of the Joliet Army Ammunition Plant in northern Illinois to the Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, grassland birds ...

In 2014, the invasive Oriental weather loach was found in the Prairie Creek wetland at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie. While little is known about the Oriental weather loach and its impact on ...

Illinois Beach State Park is a bit like someone took Big Marsh Park, Montrose Beach, and Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie and mashed them together like an early-2000s RJD2 banger. Located just south ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WILMINGTON, Ill. — The entire educational ...