A 15-year-old bicyclist was killed after being hit by a vehicle Wednesday night in Crystal Lake, Illinois. The McHenry County ...

Swimmers were dealt some disappointment for another day as several Chicago-area beaches remained shut down due to high ...

Renovation work is expected to begin later this month on a 33,000-square-foot hotel in Waukegan that will be transformed into a permanent homeless shelter featuring 200 beds.

Fathers and father figures enjoyed a fun day of fishing at Miller Park, hosted by a McLean County coalition aimed at ...

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

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

Over a dozen beaches across the Chicagoland area are closed due to E.coli contamination and erosion, with the most closures in Cook and Lake counties.

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

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 ...