Gregory Jackson said he learned from an official at the naval base that DHS was leaving the building it has used as its ...

Each year, more than 40,000 recruits train at the U.S Navy’s Recruit Training Command, but only the top sailors walk away ...

Many federal workers are struggling to make ends meet amid the ongoing government shutdown, including firefighters at the Great Lakes Fire Department at Naval Station Great Lakes.

Today, we are celebrating and featuring:Charles F. LaFloe Sr. who served in the Navy from December 1955-December 1959. He first attended Boot Camp in Great Lakes, ...

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I recently spent 24 hours with the US NAVY who put me through their toughest “brains vs. brawn” boot camp to see if I have what it takes to become an elite special warfare linguist. Can I survive a ...

The state of Illinois officially has acquired the 50-acre parcel of land needed for a multi-state, $1.15 billion effort to keep invasive carp and other nuisance species out of Lake Michigan and the ...

Silver carp jump out of the Illinois River at Starved Rock near Ottawa as Illinois Natural History Survey researchers electrofish to study the population in August. (Photo by Ashlee Rezin) The fight ...

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