The Kankakee Fire Department launched a rescue boat and located a deceased male in the Kankakee River. The victim's age and ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Ill. (WGN) — A drinking water alert has been issued for Aqua Illinois customers with infants due to high levels of nitrates from the Kankakee River. According to an alert on ...

This near bankruptcy ended these early thoughts of canalizing the Kankakee. However, the concept of using navigation as the reason for “straightening” the river— with the byproduct of draini ...

Nelson Morris’s 23,000-acre ranch was the largest, but many smaller ranches thrived along the Kankakee. The runoff from the ranches added dramatically to pollution of the river, but at that time ...

Aqua Illinois said customers served by its Kankakee River water treatment plant were warned about what it said were “unprecedented levels of nitrates” in the river water, which is treated for ...

Discovered in a remote Ottoman town in 1884, the Madaba Map is both a masterpiece of Byzantine design and a working map of Jerusalem and the sixth-century Middle East. A detail of the Madaba Map ...

Last year, the final of four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River were removed in the largest project of its kind in US ...

Carpentersville may need to spend more than $4 million to bury water and sewer lines below the bottom of the Fox River ...

Although many from outside the county visit The Roanoke/Cashie River Center at 112 W. Water St. in Windsor, there are those ...

Gov. Dan McKee ceremonially signed legislation to rename the Sakonnet River Bridge in honor of a fallen Tiverton soldier on ...

It was a noticeably cooler day on Friday compared to recent days. The 71 degree high officially at O’Hare International ...