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Tongue firmly in cheek, the governor said his proclamation has been sent to Google "so the world's maps reflect this ...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker mocks Donald Trump with a satirical video announcement declaring Lake Michigan will be renamed ...

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials from Chicago have been aiding a poor, predominantly white Ohio village upended ...

The Way We Were photo this week is of the Clyde C. Netzley Chrysler Plymouth dealership in downtown Naperville as it looked ...

Two 34-year-old women were wounded early Friday morning in a shooting on the South Side in the Kenwood neighborhood, Chicago police said. Shortly before 6:45 a.m., the women were standing near the ...

A powerful winter storm has millions of people across at least 22 states from the Midwest to the Northeast on alert for a ...

Dozens of dead and sick birds are washing ashore on Lake Michigan beaches in Illinois and Wisconsin, suspected of having the bird flu, according to state officials.

The small plastic particles are "ubiquitous" in Great Lakes water, sediment, plants, fish and beaches, an international panel ...

A developing winter storm could bring a potentially crippling ice threat from the Midwest to the Northeast, and the West ...