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 feet ...

Fog over Lake Michigan drifted inland across northern and northeast Illinois this morning, with some patches becoming locally dense, according to the NWS. A dense fog advisory is in place until 10 ...

The weather service issued Hazardous Weather Outlooks for central Illinois, southeast Illinois, northeast Illinois and northwest Indiana, including areas surrounding Lake Michigan.

Richard Pegau and his late wife Judy took fisherman out on a charter boat onto Lake Michigan for a deep-sea fishing ...

Lake Michigan waves break in Chicago. Jose Carlos Castro Antelo/Getty What People Are Saying. NWS meteorologist Zachary Yack, who works at the Chicago office, told Newsweek: "We get these periods ...

Chicago-area water pollution may be stalling spread of Asian carp 00:40. A stalemate between President Donald Trump and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker that threatened a $1.2 billion plan to keep ...

Last week, 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.

Lake Michigan is the only Great Lake located fully in the U.S. The freshwater lake features more than 100 lighthouses. A national lakeshore offers sand dunes and 35 miles of shoreline.