Opinion

The Illinois State Rifle Association today called Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s gun control plan “unnecessary, divisive, and unenforceable.” Reacting to Emanuel’s announcement on Thursday of a statewide gun licensing program, ISRA Executive Director Richard Pearson

Gun owners in Illinois have a new reason to believe Chicago rules the rest of the state. On Thursday, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel proposed statewide legislation that would require handgun owners statewide to register their

DNR’s budget crisis has claimed another victim: Outdoor Illinois Magazine, a glossy magazine that trumpeted DNR’s programs and Illinois state parks and nature will cease publication after the March issue. There’s always been some confusion

Over the past weekend, a 29-year-old fisherman fell through the ice on Pistakee Lake and drowned. I know I may get some flack for this, but it is something that has to be said. The

DNR director raises red flags on agency’s budget DNR Director Marc Miller sounded an alarm that should be unsettling to the state’s hunters, anglers and fans of Illinois state parks. The agency’s budget is taking

Aside from the whitetail, one of my favorite things to learn and collect ever-changing statistics about is the apex predators of North America, especially since two of them seem to be gaining more and more

The Illinois Conservation Foundation has announced four new inductees that will make up the 2012 class of the Illinois Outdoor Hall of Fame. Chauncey Niziol, of Westchester, the late Casimir “Cass” Sliwa, of Chicago, Warren

Hunters and anglers hankering for an outdoors show have two choices this weekend – one in Chicagoland and one in the middle of the state. The Chicago Outdoor Sportsmen Show is coming to the Donald

The Sierra Club is challenging a proposed land swap between the Shawnee National Forest and Peabody Energy, calling the idea “by and far the dumbest and worst thing they’ve ever proposed.” Meanwhile, hunters in Pope