What if there were 50 Extension professionals at your local Extension Office that could help diagnose your plant or pest problems? University of Illinois Extension's Distance Diagnostics system makes that possible by bringing every Extension office in the state almost instant access to the diagnostic skills of these experts.

Successful container gardeners know that good looking containers just don't happen. When a few basic principles are applied, even the novice gardener can create and maintain attention-grabbing containers.

When you hear a weather report, do you wonder what causes the weather to be a certain way? What makes one day bright and calm, while another day is rainy and windy? What makes the wind blow? How are clouds formed? Why do we have seasons?