Well, the Governor of Illinois had an important announcement regarding his own renaming of long-established geographical ...

"Lake Michigan shall be known as Lake Illinois," Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker announced Friday, mocking President Donald Trump ...

Pritzker appears to be taking a jab at President Trump who signed an executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.

U.S. Steel mines iron ore in Minnesota and sends it across Lake Superior on freighters a thousand feet long. At Sault Ste.

Two separate winter storms are threatening to bring snow and ice to much of the Midwest and East Coast this week.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has nominated Neil Jacobs to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has halted a key project meant to defend the Great Lakes from invasive carp, citing federal funding ...

Illinois Department of Natural Resources Director Natalie Phelps Finnie on Monday wrote in a letter to the U.S. Army Corps of ...

Storm Iliana begins Wednesday and is set to bring snow and ice to a large area. It will begin just east of the Rockies, then move through the central U.S., Midwest and Great Lakes before moving ...

A winter system is expected to dump several inches of snow on the Chicago area this week, but how much could you see? While ...

Homicide data from the Illinois State Police, which patrols the city’s expressways, also is not included here. Trump, Musk move to oust EPA staff in the Great Lakes region, including dozens ...

A new program pairs ice fishing anglers on the Great Lakes with researchers who need to know how thick the ice is, despite funding chaos.