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Discover the lethal snakes lurking in Illinois and stay cautious during your outdoor adventures!

If you recall, back in 2019, The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) and the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) were asking Illinois residents to be more vigilant about where they boat, ski, and swim over the summer due to blue-green algae "blooms" that are occurring in Illinois' lakes and rivers.

If you guessed "the two-legged kind," you would technically be correct. We humans pose a lot more danger to each other than animals do, but we're talking about four legs (mostly), fur (sometimes), and fangs here.

Most of the growth is harmless, but some can produce toxic chemicals that cause sickness in people and pets.

Granted, it's pretty hard to get a deadly avalanche going through cornfields.

These dangerous critters have been popping up in half of the United States and are now in Illinois.

The Winnebago County Coroner's office has identified the victim in the shooting as 15-year-old Martavius Lewers of Rockford ORIGINAL POST BELOW Rockford police are investigating a deadly shooting that occurred Tuesday night on the city's west side...

One person is dead after a Thursday night shooting in Rockford. According to a press release, officers responded to the 1000 block of 17th Street just before 7 p.m. in reference to a shooting in the back alley. Information was then provided that the incident involved a residence in the 1000 block of 16th Street and that there was a shooting victim located there...

After reports of twin shark attacks off the shore of North Carolina, some are asking the Jaws-esque question, "Is it safe to go into the water?" Christopher Ingraham of the Washington Post crunched the numbers and says...yes, it is, at least compared to other potentially deadly animals: If we want to properly contextualize shark attacks, we need to compare sharks to their peers -- bears