Illinois officials took possession of a 50-acre stretch of riverbed in Chicago’s shipping channel in a last-ditch effort to prevent an ecological disaster from reaching Lake Michigan. It is there, on ...

They escaped into the Mississippi River and have moved north into dozens of tributaries in the central ... the Illinois River, which is infested with invasive carp, and Lake Michigan.

Fog over Lake Michigan drifted inland across northern ... Severe weather threats in Chicago and central Illinois The development of storms in northern and central Illinois on Thursday and Friday ...

ROCKS Beach State Park holds Illinois’ only undeveloped stretch of Lake Michigan shoreline, but it’s subject to the ferocious waves of the lake. The conditions have sometimes eroded up to 100 ...

The U.S. Census Bureau’s estimates show Kendall, Champaign, Grundy, McHenry and Will counties gained the greatest percentage ...

A powerful geomagnetic storm is still be impacting Earth today. Does that mean you’ll see the northern lights tonight?

They escaped into the Mississippi River and have moved north into dozens of tributaries in the central ... the Illinois River, which is infested with invasive carp, and Lake Michigan.