You can get in touch with James by emailing j.bickerton@newsweek.com Democratic Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has apparently joked he is renaming Lake Michigan as 'Lake Illinois,' and annexing ...

Get in touch with Chloe Mayer by emailing c.mayer@newsweek.com Scientists have created an interactive map that shows how parts of Illinois may be swallowed up by Lake Michigan as climate change bites.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker threw some shade at President Donald Trump in a Friday parody video, where he issued a proclamation to rename Lake Michigan after the "great state" of Illinois.

A 7-year-old girl was found safe, and two men were found dead after the boat they were in capsized at LaSalle Lake State Fish and Wildlife area in Illinois. The girl was wearing a life jacket ...

The aquifer from which Joliet, Illinois, sources its drinking water ... So Joliet eyed a huge water source 30 miles to the northeast: Lake Michigan. It’s the second-largest of the Great Lakes ...

A sheriff's deputy in Williamson County, Illinois, is being praised for rescuing a pregnant woman whose car wouldn't stop as it sped toward a freezing lake. The seven-minute ordeal began with a ...

While Northeastern Illinois was under a winter weather advisory with lake effect snow expected Monday, Washington County in downstate Illinois was under a shelter-in-place order after a major ...