Whether you’re looking for a quiet beachfront or a city sprawling with nightlife, the Windy City is perfectly positioned for ...

outlined Thursday at the Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant’s Lake Michigan fisheries meeting in Wilmette. Fifty smallmouth bass were tagged (28 from three tournaments at East Chicago Marina in Indiana ...

A bass angler fishing the southern end of Lake Michigan ... nearly broke the Illinois record. Kyle Danhausen’s smallie ...

The vacation home in the lakefront community of Beverly Shores was one of Swiss architect Otto Kolb’s few commissions in the ...

I hope to live long enough to see both the Indiana and Illinois ... caught from Lake Michigan. FOTW, the celebration of big fish and their stories (the stories matter) around Chicago fishing ...

David and Susan Axelrod are asking $2.35 million for their 52-acre estate in Buchanan, Mich., 88 miles from downtown Chicago ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson touted his Springfield agenda as both “modest” and beneficial to the whole state of Illinois during a ...

Brammeier, who lives in the Chicago area ... at the Des Plaines River in Joliet, Illinois, to prevent bighead carp and silver carp from entering Lake Michigan. Joel Brammeier, the CEO of the ...

Tour guides highlight more than 40 towering Chicago ... dinner with a view, you could do worse than watching the sunset against the skyline aboard this 2.5 or 3-hour Lake Michigan brunch, lunch ...

You can volunteer for Chicago River Day, try bird photography, go on a Frank Lloyd Wright-themed bike tour and more.

U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky announced Monday that she won’t seek reelection next year after 14 terms, making her the latest ...

The man with a briefcase was stunned for a moment. Getting out of a cab early sunny Monday morning at State Street and Wacker Drive, he had obviously not heard the news. He stared for a while at the ...