Progress on the Brandon Road Lock and Dam is once again at a stalemate, and several local lawmakers are calling on state ...

Illinois last month had delayed signing paperwork with the Army Corps of Engineers, citing “uncertainty” of funding from the Trump administration.

Illinois has postponed construction in a long-awaited $1.15 billion project to stop the movement of invasive carp up Illinois waterways and into Lake Michigan. A groundbreaking ceremony had ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker continues to hold up the Brandon Road Project – a billion-dollar project to block invasive carp ...

The Trump administrations efforts to cut funding could make it easier for invasive species to thrive in the Great Lakes.

Scientists believe the invaders would out-compete native species and Michigan's prized sports fish, creating ecological chaos on the Great Lakes. Bighead and silver carp are now within 47 miles of ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has halted the Brandon Road Interbasin project – a key defense to prevent invasive carp from migrating from the Mississippi River into Lake Michigan. The project is a ...

The structure is a choke point between the Illinois River, which is infested with invasive carp, and Lake Michigan. Plans call for installing equipment there that can generate bubble curtains and ...

JOLIET, IL — Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is delaying the launch of a $1.2 billion effort to prevent invasive silver and bighead carp from reaching Lake Michigan out of concern that the Trump ...