Black businesses were essential to facilitating the Great Migration of African Americans out of the South between the 1910s ...

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration ... headed north to Chicago and Milwaukee on the Illinois Central Railroad and its feeder lines. The Gladneys first ...

Spring draws hundreds of millions of birds north after winter shooed them away. Here are some of the species traveling to or ...

to further research in central Illinois. Using radio telemetry, Motus helps researchers better understand the migration patterns of different species with surprising precision. A tower was ...

Numbers released by the U.S. Census show Illinois gained nearly 68,000. The increase was driven by international migration into Illinois. In the past year, total net international migration into ...

U.S. Census Bureau data shows Illinois lost 56,235 people to other states in 2024 to rank 48th across the country in losses from domestic migration, with many of the now former residents pointing ...