The Allerton Park and Retreat Center near Monticello is one of the best known natural areas in Central Illinois. It had been ...

Plans for Monticello’s Oberheim Park are moving forward. City Council members approved five acres from the Allerton Public Library to be transferred to the city for the project off of Old Route 47.

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has announced the creation of a new administrative unit — the Division of Parks ...

MONTICELLO, Ill. (WCIA) — Allerton Park is holding its first-ever Bluebell Festival this weekend. The Bluebell Festival is set to run from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on ...

executive director of Allerton Park. “We’re really going to have to hit the ground running.” Peterson has been appointed head of the UI’s newly created Division of Parks and Natural Spaces ...