OZARK (WSIL) -- Camp Ondessonk has seven marked trails and nearly 25 miles of trails to explore. "It's about a thousand acres, a little bit less than a thousand acres, piece of property. It's owned ...

But for this city kid, it was a trip to another world of lakes, snakes, treehouses, campfires and horses. It was summer camp. Heepwah! Back to nature, for an East St. Louis kid who spent most of his ...

There will also be a Manchester 10K and a Fun Run 5K. Registration for both races start at 9:30 a.m. Learn more about the races here. The festival is free admission and taking place from noon to 4 p.m ...

Cyril “Pete” Korte was recently honored as the first recipient of the Ondessonk Builders and Founders Legacy Award at the 2015 Camp Ondessonk Gala and Benefit Auction in Fairview Heights. News Leader ...

BELLEVILLE - Camp Ondessonk, an Illinois not-for-profit youth camp in Ozark, hosted 18 Japanese students from Notre Dame Elementary School in Kyoto, Japan, from July 27 through 30. The new campers ...

Greg Hollmann, Associate Professor of Physical Sciences at Rend Lake College decided it was just too nice outside to keep his students sealed in the classroom. Hollmann took his Physical Sciences ...

This eclipse experience includes a summer camp. Parkland College's Staerkel Planetarium, the Champaign-Urbana Astronomical Society and the Twin City Amateur Astronomers from Bloomington-Normal are ...

O’FALLON — A new Pickleball tournament will benefit a local camp. The Ondessonk Smash! Pickleball Tournament will be at 4 p.m. Nov. 8 at St. Clair Tennis, 733 Hartman Lane in O’Fallon. The tournament ...

The priest who helped establish the popular Catholic Camp Ondessonk in Southern Illinois in 1959 and decades years later became the center of a major church sex scandal has died. Officials with the St ...