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3 days ago · The Native Plant Garden displays three distinct areas—a woodland path, close to the lake, with native plants preferring part shade; a sunny prairie, showcasing the diversity of native prairie plants; and a pollinator area, designed to appeal to native bees and butterflies.
3 days ago · Station Details. Station Details. Ticket Vending Machine. No Vending Machine. Purchase tickets on board or via the Ventra app. Waiting Room Hours. 5:45 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Train Lines.
4 days ago · Prairie State, Illinois’s largest emitter of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide pollution, is increasingly an outlier in a fast-changing sector of the U.S. economy. Coal’s share of the...
4 days ago · Only tiny fragments of the original tallgrass prairie have been preserved, and some small areas have been reconstructed; the largest restored prairie in the state is Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, near Joliet.
3 days ago · Visiting an Illinois Prairie. Illinois was once home to vast acres of prairies, but today little remains. Some of the highest quality prairie remnants (unplowed prairie lands) that remain in Illinois can be found in cemetery plots or on top of bluffs or rocky areas not accessible with a plow.
3 days ago · Dozens of Illinois communities urged to extend use of coal-fired power plant near Marissa. By Michael Hawthorne Chicago Tribune. May 27, 2024 7:00 AM. Prairie State Energy Campus in Marissa ...
3 days ago · The state's nickname is " The Prairie State. Short History. Native American tribes lived along the waterways of the Illinois area for thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans. The French colonized the region now known as Illinois in the 1600s; it was ceded to Britain in 1763, in 1783 the US acquired the land.
