Around 175 million tons of freight travels on the Mississippi River each year, and from the river’s headwaters to southern Illinois ... foot the bill. If shipping companies face slowdowns ...

The impact of global trade policies is being felt in Central Illinois, with shipping ports experiencing a slowdown due to ...

Illinois officials took possession of a 50-acre stretch of riverbed in Chicago’s shipping channel in a last-ditch effort to ...

Shipping barges can't travel on too ... Dorothy lives five minutes from the Mississippi River, in East Moline, Illinois; she regularly paddles across the surface and walks its banks.

New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the ...

The mighty Mississippi River is one of the largest rivers in the world, and one of the largest water highways in the U.S., supporting the shipping industry with over 35,000 jobs. Flowing through ...

The lock in Dubuque and Fulton, Illinois closed Friday ... The closures of the locks and dams will impact shipping on the Mississippi River. That barge traffic typically picks up pace in the ...

The rising Mississippi River was testing flood defenses in southeast Iowa and northwest Illinois as it neared ... recreators, the shipping industry and federal environmental agencies like the ...

WINFIELD, Missouri — In the story of America, the Mississippi River is a character ... s Central Port in Granite City, Illinois, just across the river from St. Louis. Champions of heartland ...