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

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

Nearly a century after its disappearance, the Arctic grayling will return to the state when the Michigan DNR releases its ...

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

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

Lake Michigan is one of these icier-than-average ... Since last Saturday, January 18th, the Great Lakes Basin has seen a 14.63% jump in ice coverage from 8.58% to 23.21% in just 6 days.

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.