Dayton Bluffs Preserve and Belrose Farm—on the lower Fox River give a strong glimpse of the past and the future.

New archaeological research challenges long-held assumptions about why ancient hunter-gatherers built the monumental earthworks at Poverty Point in Louisiana some 3,500 years ago. Rather than serving ...

Some 3,500 years ago, hunter-gatherers began building massive earthwork mounds along the Mississippi River at Poverty Point, ...

Researchers have determined the age and origin of a massive tree that was found at the pre-Columbian city of Cahokia in what ...

Think of Illinois and you most likely picture the dazzling lights of Chicago, with its vibrant neighborhoods packed with ...

The Standing Bear Council will present a program on "Native American History in Hancock County" at the Carthage Community Center at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8.

About 3,500 years ago, in a bend of the Mississippi River in what is now northeastern Louisiana, groups of hunter-gatherers ...

This nature preserve near Ottawa, Illinois, offers a serene mix of prairies, ravines, hiking trails, and Native history along ...

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias awards grants to 11 archives for digitizing and preserving vital historical ...

Authors and researchers Carla Bruni and Phil Thompson left no greystone — or terracotta — unturned in the more-than-300-page ...

Eleven years ago Saturday (Oct. 25), in one of the few highlights of the Tim Beckman era, the Illini broke a three-game ...