When Clare Tallon Ruen worked with students in Evanston/Skokie School District 65 to teach kids about water in their community, she said she encountered a lot of misconceptions about Lake Michigan. Some...

Northwestern is closing the eastern path of the Lakefill to start work on an Emergency Coastal Stabilization project, according to a Wednesday email. The project, which starts the week of Sept. 28,...

When the Lady Elgin departed from Chicago’s LaSalle Street dock around 11 p.m. on Sept. 7, 1860, it was the start of a routine trip up the coast of Lake Michigan with its first stop in Milwaukee the...

Evanston’s sewer system has been flooded with problems for decades. As early as 1902, the city’s commissioner of public works declared the sewer system to be “inadequate in size and depth to serve...

For most people, the idea of jumping into the 37-degree waters of Lake Michigan in the dead of winter is absurd, much less the idea of repeating that process hourly for 24 hours. But 55 participants...