As it mutates, the bird flu has seemingly been able to infect other bird species, pets, other kinds of animals and, on rare occasions, humans.

The warmer weather and melting ice along Lake Michigan, which has opened up new areas of water, likely contributed to the ...

Wildlife professionals and advocates are grappling with an avian influenza outbreak that seems to be growing more virulent ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --An Illinois state lawmaker has proposed legislation ... to build a new $4.7 billion domed stadium complex on the lakefront just south of Soldier Field, and the White Sox aiming ...

Paul Vriend's photo of a beaver swimming at Jackson Park leads the notes package from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.

Residents will come together Saturday to update a quality-of-life plan for the neighborhood after nearly 20 years.

Mayor Brandon Johnson argued today infrastructure improvements in and around the city's Museum Campus are needed regardless ...

Bill Stamets was on one of his regular early evening walks along 57th Street beach earlier this month when he came across a handful of dead birds clumped together near ...

If you seek an escape from the doldrums of January in Minnesota, the Illinois waterfront is not high ... the Central Division cellar-dwelling Chicago Blackhawks, surviving a late push and skating ...