Once Chicago’s iconic lakefront airport, Meigs Field is now a thriving park blending nature, history, and bold urban transformation.

Today in History for July 19: In 1553, 15-year-old Lady Jane Grey was deposed as Queen of England after only nine days. King Henry VIII's daughter Mary was proclaimed Queen and had Jane executed.

Maj. Gen. Philip Schuyler, arriving at 10 p.m. on July 18 to take command at Lake George in the Adirondacks, found a single ...

Man dies after being pulled from Lake Michigan near 63rd Street Beach An investigation is underway after a body was pulled from Lake Michigan Saturday afternoon.

A man's body was recovered from Lake Michigan on Chicago's South Side early Saturday afternoon, according to police.

A group is ending a 20-year search for a plane that crashed into Lake Michigan in 1950, killing all 58 people on board, after sweeping the vast body of water using sonar technology and even ...

Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501, at the time the deadliest commercial airlines disaster in American history, disappeared when it flew into a storm over Lake Michigan on June 24, 1950.

An investigation showed the pilot misread the fuel gauge during a pre-flight inspection. When the plane ran out of gas, the pilot made an emergency landing in a field.

The decades-long search for a passenger plane carrying 58 people that disappeared over Lake Michigan 75 years ago has been called off.

A Michigan group has concluded their search for a 1950 airplane crash in Lake Michigan after 20 years, ending the quest to honor 58 lost lives without closure.