REND LAKE (WSIL) — Thousands spent Saturday night at the fourth annual trick-or-treat event at Rend Lake Campground.

INA, Ill. -- A popular recreation spot in southern Illinois is welcoming campers to come out and enjoy the outdoors this fall. The Rend Lake Project Office/Visitor Center is alerting the public ...

Rend Lake, managed by the Army Corps of Engineers, is the second-largest man-made lake in Illinois, with 19,000 acres of water, 162 miles of shoreline and 20,000 acres of land.

Rend Lake’s duck season is one of the few remaining throwbacks to the good old days of waterfowl hunting on Illinois public land, where hunters enjoy a last-ditch free-for-all.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Rend Lake will be closing several recreation areas for the season.

Careful management has made Rend Lake a hotspot for anglers. “I had an angler sum this place up for me once,” says Illinois Department of Natural Resources fisheries biologist Mike Hooe. “He ...

Check out our Interactive Fishing Maps! BENTON, Ill. Standing at 18,900 acres, Rend Lake in Southern Illinois is a pretty well known largemouth bass lake for most anglers in the Midwest. What's ...