"Acquiring this land will allow the project to move forward and ensure our Great Lakes are protected for generations to come," said U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.

Only 40 miles separate voracious Asian carp from the Great Lakes. To stop them, Illinois must reckon with its legacy of coal ...

The memorandum urges Illinois to cooperate with the Brandon Road Lock and Dam project, a key choke point against the carp. Gov. Whitmer considers the project a major win for Michigan, securing the ...

The State of Illinois acquired a key piece of land for a project aimed at keeping an invasive carp species from reaching the ...

Gull Lake Community Schools contains 7 schools and 3,256 students. The district’s minority enrollment is 20%. Also, 28.6% of students are economically disadvantaged. The student body at the ...

That’s the concern,” he said. He said carp feed mostly on plankton and algae. Though Lake Michigan has lost much of its plankton to invasive quagga mussels, he said, plenty of plankton remain ...

For more than a decade, environmentalists and state officials clamored for help in blocking the invasive species of Asian carp from reaching Lake Michigan, with worries they would spread from ...

President Trump issued a memorandum directing his administration to prevent invasive Asian carp from entering ... that borders the Great Lakes: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York ...

to deter invasive carp from entering Lake Michigan.The Corps and the states signed a deal in 2024 to work together on the project using $226 million allocated through the Bipartisan Infrastructure ...