You can stand-up paddleboard at sunset, bring your dog to Morton Arboretum, attend the 4th Annual Wild Mile Block Party and ...

As the Erie Canal marks its 200 th year since its full operation between Lake Erie and the Hudson River, the Democrat and Chronicle will commemorate the milestone with stories and photographs ...

Chicago offers an intoxicating blend of world-class architecture, cultural sophistication, and Midwestern charm. This 3 day ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The Philadelphia Water Department celebrated the completion of the Flat Rock Dam project Thursday.

This month: Chicago's best skyline view. Our skyline is globally renowned, but locally we each have our favorite angle.

This week's Tasting Chicago. Sylvia visits several Chicago restaurants that have some affiliation to the popular Hulu show ...

The famed snapping turtle, dubbed “Chonkosaurus” by internet commentators when pictures of her basking on a Chicago River pylon first went viral in summer 2023, has reappeared.

CHICAGO – The annual Chicago River Cleanup event was held Saturday morning and this year’s event attracted the most volunteers ever. Volunteers gave just a few hours of their time for a ...

Achieving this mammoth project required the construction of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, a 28-mile waterway that remains one of the largest earth-moving projects ever undertaken globally.

ROCKDALE, Ill. — Authorities confirmed that the body pulled from the Des Plaines River on Tuesday afternoon was a Chicago pastor who went missing a week ago. Confirmation was initially made from ...

They also dredged, deepened, and widened the river—which emptied into an entirely new canal called the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal—to reverse its flow.