It stands tall and prickly, bearing seed heads that dare you to get close. Where there’s one, there are legions. They are well-armed and on the offense. The plant is teasel, a species that hitched a ...

The ground war against invasive teasel in Long Grove will resume in the spring. Backed with a $10,000 grant from the village, the Long Grove Park District for a third consecutive year is leading the ...

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Cuts are sweeping campuses as cash-strapped universities slash staff and politicians fail to act on a growing funding emergency. VINCE MILLS reports I SUSPECT that the reader who told me she has a ...

DESPITE the best efforts of Storm Ali and the suddenly plummeting temperatures that followed, there’s still plenty of greenery about. The foliage that has surrendered its chlorophyll is still in the ...

If you’ve driven along any interstates or highways in Illinois, there’s a good chance you’ve seen tall plants with spiky flower heads. Teasels have become an increasingly common site across Illinois.

Teasel is a dangerous plant, a pretty weed that can grow 7 feet high or taller and crowd out anything else in the field or ditch or stream bank where it grows. And it has been creeping into Lancaster ...

Don’t be late for dinner,’ my friend’s mother called out from the kitchen. I’m making a nice hedgehog palya!’ I stopped short of the door, wondering if I’d heard that right. ‘Oh lovely,’ said my ...