Plus: A proposal to ease housing banishment laws and the Army Corps drops plans for a toxic sludge dump in Calumet Harbor.

Coho salmon fishing is excellent in Lake Michigan but could change quickly as temperatures warm. April is an excellent time ...

The classic signs of spring have been appearing for weeks across the South and are gradually inching northward.

The proposed law introduced would bar the federal Environmental Protection Agency from using hundreds of chemical assessments ...

Since railroad lines linked communities, rail trails typically function as connectors, too. While there’s no standard ...

A scene from "When Harry Met Sally" helped put New York's Katz's Deli on the map. And all over the country, there are equally ...

The Diamondbacks' Corbin Burnes did not want to stray from a routine that he believes has helped turn him into one of the ...

Top-notch bass anglers Ryan Whitacre and Josh Sokol had quite the day fishing in the dyed-green Chicago River in front of ...

AP photographer Erin Hooley has covered the annual dyeing green of the Chicago River in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day for ...

Schepers has been missing since 1983, and investigators believe her car has been found in the Fox River in Elgin, Illinois.

Boutros, 47, now the co-chair of the government investigations and white collar group at Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP in Chicago, was among those vetted for the White House by U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood, a ...

In April of 1983, 23-year-old Karen Schepers, of Elgin, disappeared after a night out with coworkers. Tuesday, more than 40 years after the case went cold, a giant, submerged clue was discovered after ...