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OAKWOOD — Filming a movie in Vermilion County brings a family together and sparks a passion for the arts. Last Saturday and Sunday, Oakland native Crystal Hughes led the production of her upcoming ...

For decades, the American corn monocultures have fueled an industry—corn ethanol—that promised to make gasoline cleaner. That promise has failed. But a new study suggests these sprawling fields could ...

Milkweeds growing in cornfields sometimes support monarch butterfly larvae at the same time the corn is shedding its pollen, according to a survey of cornfields in the Midwest, Maryland and Ontario.

Bay Journal News senior writer Timothy B. Wheeler recently speculated that the growth of large-scale solar collection fields on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, at the expense of cornfields, might have ...

As summer winds down and the days grow shorter, there is a certain anticipation in the air. The fields of Indiana begin to transform, taking on a golden hue as the corn reaches its peak of maturity.

There has been a pop in popcorn’s profile as a healthy snack, and Waukegan is home to one of the original U.S. popcorn companies, which was sold last year to Ohio-based Eagle Foods. The company was ...

Christopher Nolan is stubbornly secretive about his projects, and up to now, the only detail revealed by the teaser trailers and posters for his hotly anticipated sci-fi movie Interstellar was that ...

From the outside, the Cornfields Inc. headquarters along Sunset Avenue on Waukegan’s far northwest side looks like just another light-industrial building in an area filled with them. But even the ...