The Latest Breaking News from IDNR

Louis Monetti adds another first, doing a seminar at the Chicagoland Fishing, Travel and Outdoor Show Thursday through Sunday, to a year filled with firsts in college fishing.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Natalie Phelps Finnie, a former Downstate legislator, as the new director of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

Colleen Callahan was asked to resign her position as Gov. J.B. Pritzker begins his second term; here’s a look at Callahan’s nearly four years as the first woman to be director of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

Colleen Callahan, the first woman to be director of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, is stepping down on Jan. 16.

Hunters between 18 and 21 could be looking at a tricky legal limbo under HB5855, known as the Protect Illinois Communities Act.

Because of an issue with the permitting system, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources has extended the deadlines.

A randy roving bucks in the suburbs, a record Great Lakes smallmouth bass, a question on certified scales and an observation on bait-stealing channel catfish on the Rock River are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.

CHICAGO — Family portrait takers, tour guides and social media influencers are running out of time to photograph the final days of the best season of fall colors in northern Illinois in years, experts say.

Updates from the return of the Chicago fishing advisory committee included the international appeal of fishing the Chicago River, an unexpected catfish stocking in the Chicago lagoons and talk of the return of meetings on the Lake Michigan fishery.

Avian flu is expected to spike again and Illinois is the latest Lake Michigan state to advice waterfowl hunters on what to notice and precautions for the upcoming seasons.

Travis Strickland caught the pending Illinois-record skipjack herring, in part because he knew what he had.