Well, the Governor of Illinois had an important announcement regarding his own renaming of long-established geographical ...

Illinois Department of Natural Resources Director Natalie Phelps Finnie on Monday wrote in a letter to the U.S. Army Corps of ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has halted a key project meant to defend the Great Lakes from invasive carp, citing federal funding ...

To that end, the nonprofit Great Lakes Observing System, or GLOS, is asking ice fishing anglers and others who go out on the ...

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

Scientists are urging the US and Canadian governments to take swift action after discovering high levels of microplastic ...

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

Abdullatif Ahmed recalls his journey from Yemen to working on the icy waters of the Great Lakes, where Yemeni sailors shaped the region’s maritime history.

When the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was passed in the 1970s, eutrophication was the big problem. Eutrophication occurs when too many nutrients enter a body of water, increasing the amount of ...

I’m really looking forward to it. Absolutely! It’s been 11 years since I’ve been to the Detroit area,” said Jones, of San ...

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