Illinois was bypassed by the worst parts of the storm, but winter weather advisories were issued Sunday evening for Iroquois and Ford counties, and another advisory was issued for Lake County all ...

A $73 million state-funded project in Lake County aims to stabilize the last undeveloped Lake Michigan shoreline in Illinois and help protect native endangered species. Illinois Beach State Park ...

Democratic Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has apparently joked he is renaming Lake Michigan as 'Lake Illinois,' and annexing Green Bay from neighboring Wisconsin, in an apparent attempt to poke fun ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to drain an entire southern Illinois lake over safety concerns and to avoid a ...

An Illinois deputy came to the rescue of a pregnant woman whose runaway car was racing toward a freezing lake when the brakes stopped working – in a heart-pounding save captured on camera.

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 ...

CHICAGO (CBS) – After a rash of drownings and tragedies this summer, there's been a renewed push to keep everyone safe in the waters of Lake Michigan ... led to a new Illinois law, signed ...

A Lake Michigan mansion and its eight-figure asking ... "Windsor House" and the 2.3 acres that accompany it in Winnetka, Illinois, scored the title of the "highest-priced residential listing ...

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 ...

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 ...