When it's winter in Chicago, even the river needs a plow. The city entrusts the experts at the Chicago Fire Department to take care of the ice.

Great Lakes Fact or Fake? is a new book by Dave Dempsey. Below are adapted excerpts from the book, which bring readers along while he answers 41 myths about the Great Lakes. FACT or FAKE? There was a time when many people in the Great Lakes watershed drank sewage.

With 2025 fresh underway, several Chicago chefs and restaurants have received a prestigious honor, being named among the semifinalists for the James Beard Foundation Award, lauding the finest restaurants,

Chicago has 22 semifinalists in the "Oscars of food" this year, including in new beverage categories. The Awards will be announced in Chicago in June.

After digging into the archives, weather service meteorologists found that since 1942, fewer than 5% of Chicago’s sub-zero days have occurred with no snow: of 594 sub-zero days, only 28 lacked snow cover.

Victory Cruise Lines unveiled its 2026 Great Lakes season, featuring new itineraries and new ports of call, according to a press release. "It seems like yesterday the Victory Cruise Lines team was planning our inaugural season and we have received wonderful feedback on those 2025 itineraries,

A new study builds on previous research that shows winters on the Great Lakes are growing shorter due to climate change.

It’s almost time for the 14th Annual “Sleds Are Coming” exhibition sled hockey event co-hosted by the Great Lakes Adaptive Sports Association and the Lake Forest College athletic

The arctic cold front reached the Carolinas during the morning of January 20 and by that evening had pushed through all of Florida and into Cuba. Across North and South Carolina, the coldest morning of the event was January 21, 1985, a date which shows up in most city’s record books for the lowest temperatures ever observed.

Michelin-starred Cariño earned its first James Beard semifinalist nomination, in the category of Best New Restaurant.