ST. LOUIS — As the Show Me St. Louis team continued their take over in Waterloo Illinois, on-air talent, Malik Wilson took a little detour to check out the Illinois Caverns. Illinois Caverns is ...

About 150,000 years ago, the area that is now known as Monroe County in southwest Illinois was covered in ice hundreds of feet thick. When the ice melted, the water flowed into fractures in the area’s ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MONROE COUNTY, Ill.—The Illinois Caverns are ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois Department of Natural Resources is closing state-owned caves to the public in response to the rapid spread of a fungus that is killing bats. The fungus, first ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. About 1,000 Boy Scouts every year descend into the humid darkness of Illinois Caverns outside Waterloo to learn about the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DOWNSTATE, Ill. – It’s the 40 th Annual ...

SPRINGFIELD (AP) - Illinois is closing state-managed caves to visitors while trying to stop the spread of a mysterious fungus that is killing bats. Among caves no longer open to people is the Illinois ...