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.

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 ...

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

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

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

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.

CHICAGO (CBS) --Tongue firmly in cheek, Gov. JB Pritzker trolled President Donald Trump on Friday, declaring Lake Michigan would be renamed "Lake Illinois," and jokingly annexing Green Bay from ...

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 ...