Ice covers the Lake Michigan shoreline during a cold snap on January 30, 2019, in Chicago. #

A barn is seen surrounded by windswept corn near Kenney, Illinois, on June 20, 2012. #

A short-eared owl flies in Prairie Ridge State Natural Area, near Effingham, Illinois. #

A locomotive pulls train cars in a rail yard in Galesburg, Illinois. #

A view of Camel Rock in Garden of the Gods Wilderness, in Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois #

People cool off downtown in Chicago's Crown Fountain as temperatures climbed into the 90s on July 19, 2019. #

Dan Duffy plants soybeans near Dwight, Illinois, on April 23, 2020. Mild, dry weather had farmers in the state scrambling to get their fields planted. #

A calf is auctioned at the Fairview Sale Barn in Fairview, Illinois, on August 2, 2012. #

A corn processing plant operates along the Illinois River in Peoria. #

Students walk and socialize on the main quad of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus in Urbana, Illinois, on April 17, 2016. #

Thousands attend a homecoming game at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Memorial Stadium. #

A view of the riverfront of Peoria, Illinois #

Stormy skies above Carbondale, Illinois #

An eastern wild turkey struts in Stephen A. Forbes State Park in Marion County. #

A view of Galena's historic Main Street, photographed on October 28, 2019 #

A view of calm waters on the Fox River in Geneva, Illinois #

A bald eagle perches on broken ice on the Mississippi River in Alton, Illinois. #

A beech tree hangs on to many of its leaves well into January, in DuPage County, Illinois. #

A man walks down a snow-covered street in Chicago on February 1, 2015. #

An aerial view of Chicago at sunrise, photographed in October of 2019 #

A row of homes stands in Chicago's Andersonville neighborhood. #

An evening view of Rockford, Illinois. Rockford is the largest city in Illinois outside of the Chicago metropolitan area. #

Naperville's 160-foot Moser Tower and Millennium Carillon, built in 1999 to commemorate the third millennium and 21st century. #

Central Illinois farmers deposit harvested corn on the ground outside a full grain elevator in Virginia, Illinois, on September 23, 2015. #

The sun rises over the misty prairie in Springbrook Prairie Forest Preserve, in DuPage County, Illinois. #

The corner of Washington Street and South Main Street in Algonquin, Illinois, photographed on September 30, 2019 #

A night view of downtown Chicago and its neighborhoods and suburbs, photographed on November 24, 2013 #

Eddie "The Chief" Clearwater performs at the 2016 Chicago Blues Festival in Chicago's Grant Park on June 12, 2016. #

In Chicago, a Brown Line CTA train makes its way through an S-curve portion of track heading toward downtown, near the Merchandise Mart, on June 6, 2018. #