Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is renaming Lake Michigan to “Lake Illinois," poking fun at President Donald Trump’s recent ...

Anticipating a lack of federal funding under the new presidential administration, Illinois has postponed construction in a ...

Water levels of the upper Great Lakes are expected to drop to near or significantly below their historical summer averages ...

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker jokingly announced that the name of Lake Michigan had been changed to "Lake Illinois," poking fun at President Donald Trump's Gulf of America. Pritzker posted a video on ...

The International Centre for Waterspout Research has highlighted much of the Lake Michigan basin as having the necessary ...

Nearly a century after its disappearance, the Arctic grayling will return to the state when the Michigan DNR releases its eggs into a trio of streams in the Lower Peninsula.

The ice coverage in Lake Erie has rapidly expanded to 80% this week. February and March are peak maximum ice coverage periods ...

In 2002, the Great Lakes basin had just 11.9% ice coverage, NOAA said. In 2012, Lake Superior had 8.5% coverage. In 2002, Lake Michigan had 12.4% coverage. In 2012, Lake Huron had 22.8% coverage.