Whether the southwest portion of the Illinois Beach Nature Preserve at the Illinois Beach State Park is ever open to the ...

The Illinois Department of Public Health regularly tests the water to determine when beaches are safe to reopen.

Three people were killed – including an 11-year-old child – and one person was seriously injured in three separate crashes in ...

Demand, however, appears to be fueling new housing construction across Lake County and other locations in the region. In Kane County, west of Elgin, a plan to build 900 housing units on a broad swath ...

According to the Illinois Department of Public Health, at least five beaches in McHenry County were closed due to "high ...

Several beaches in Lake and McHenry counties remained closed for another day Sunday due to high bacteria levels. The closings ...

Twenty-seven men were arrested in a Lake County Sheriff's Special Investigations Group operation meant to curb human trafficking, officials said.

Several public beaches in the Chicago area are either closed or under advisory because of high levels of bacteria, Illinois ...

The deputy chief for criminal investigations for the Springfield Police Department said the 34-year-old man was at Lake ...

Makes return from IL ...