Knowing how to swim is not water safety. If we look at Lake Michigan right now, we are at 17 drownings as of July 8. We could ...

The Illinois Department of Public Health regularly tests the water to determine when beaches are safe to reopen.

Lake Michigan is the second largest of the North American Great Lakes by volume, primarily bordering Michigan and Wisconsin along with small sections of Illinois and Indiana.

Dangerous swimming conditions, patchy fog and isolated storms are expected this week in Illinois. Here's the forecast.

So today, I’m issuing a proclamation declaring that hereinafter, Lake Michigan shall be known as Lake Illinois. The proclamation has been forwarded to Google to ensure the world’s maps reflect ...

Jim Shell thought he could figure out how to target burbot on the reefs of the Illinois waters of Lake Michigan. And he did.

Dangerous conditions are keeping swimmers out of Lake Michigan on Monday afternoon following a deadly weekend in Northwest ...

So today, I’m issuing a proclamation declaring that hereinafter, Lake Michigan shall be known as Lake Illinois. The proclamation has been forwarded to Google to ensure the world’s maps reflect ...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is renaming Lake Michigan to “Lake Illinois," poking fun at President Donald Trump’s recent executive order where he changed the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America.

So today, I’m issuing a proclamation declaring that hereinafter, Lake Michigan shall be known as Lake Illinois. The proclamation has been forwarded to Google to ensure the world’s maps reflect ...