The Original Walt's Ice Cream opened March 1. The Dillon family operates Walt's at 1314 West Jefferson Street. They are now ...

Xuanyu Harry Pang has admitted in federal court that he’d helped plot an attack on the Naval Station Great Lakes as payback ...

In anticipation of a rush for Real IDs ahead of a federal May 7 deadline, the Illinois Secretary of State’s office is opening 12 DMV facilities around the state on Saturdays and expanding hours at ...

The Des Plaines River at Brandon Road had been identified as a critical pinch point, where experts hope layered technologies will deter the upstream movement of silver and bighead carp, currently only ...

Ice coverage on the Great Lakes is just below the seasonal average following a frigid start to the year Despite being the furthest south, Lake Erie has the highest amount of ice coverage of the ...

While most of the Great Lakes have increasing ice, most of the lakes are still below normal on ice cover. Overall the ice has been increasing on the Great Lakes at about a normal rate since it has ...

Illinois, Michigan, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have been planning since 2020 to install a gantlet of technologies in the Des Plaines River near Joliet to deter carp from entering Lake ...

A project to keep invasive carp species from reaching the Great Lakes could be in jeopardy ... about 27 miles southwest of Chicago in Joliet, Illinois, and about 40 miles from Lake Michigan.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker wants a commitment from the Trump administration that federal funds earmarked for invasive carp ...