(WCIA) — A team of researchers at the University of Illinois is working to create a more sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Now, these scientists have turned to a prairie grass to try and make it ...

URBANA, Ill. -- Switchgrass has gripped Midwestern soils for millions of years, but soon, the earthbound prairie grass could fly. New studies from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ...

Two hundred years ago, nearly two-thirds of Illinois was covered in prairie ... on reintroducing native plant species, like prairie grasses and wildflowers, to the local ecosystem.

Volunteers removed weeds and added new flowers and prairie grass to Homewood Public Library’s landscape on the afternoon of ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Prairie Land Potawatomi Nation has reclaimed land in Illinois that was promised to the tribe's leader 175 years ago but stolen by the federal government 20 years later.

Switchgrass has gripped Midwestern soils for millions of years, but soon, the earthbound prairie grass could fly. New studies from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign identify economic and ...