Siobhan Solkowski-Peacy, of the education department at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, teaches a group of students in the Mighty Acorns program. The entire education department was terminated ...

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 ...

Areas managed by the U.S. Forest Service have also been affected; in Will County, a dozen staff members were fired at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie. “The way that it’s happened ...

The Wetlands Initiative Share It’s so wasteful. The chaos emanating from Washington, D.C., splattered Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, the Chicago area’s biggest wild space, in the last two ...

News from around the Southland includes items from Mount Greenwood, Wilmington, Frankfort, School District 230 and South Holland.

Siobhan Solkowski-Peacy, former Interpretive Specialist at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie in Illinois, joins Lisa Dent to talk about losing her job amid the mass firing of federal employees. Skip ...

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 ...