Illinois Department Of Natural Resources

Big crowds, possible closures expected at Illinois parks

Associated Press

Governments may seek funds for recreational area development

Associated Press

Hunters harvest more than 80K deer during firearm season

Associated Press

Illinois DNR to landowners: Do homework before selling trees

Associated Press

IDNR has information for pheasant hunters

Associated Press

$In this March 29, 2013, file photo, workers tend to a well head during a hydraulic fracturing operation at an Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. gas well outside Rifle, Colo. Discoveries of vast reserves of oil and the slow progress of alternatives in recent years has given rise to a very different outlook on oil prices. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)-FILE$

Judge denies bid to halt Illinois fracking rules

By Jim Suhr - Associated Press

$FILE - This March 25, 2014 file photo shows perforating tools, used to create fractures in the rock, lowered into one of six wells during a roughly two-week hydraulic fracturing operation at an Encana Corp. well pad near Mead, Colo. The energy boom is scrambling national politics. Democrats are split between environmentalists and business and labor groups. Some deeply-conservative areas are allying with conservationists against fracking, the technique largely responsible for the surge. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)$

State agency issues long-awaited ‘fracking’ rules

By KERRY LESTER - Associated Press

$** FILE ** This March 25, 2014, file photo shows heat from machinery distorts the air as a worker watches over a hydraulic fracturing operation at an Encana Corp. gas well near Mead, Colo. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)$