FamilyDestinationGuide.com recently updated their list of 100 Best Secret Beaches in the USA and one Illinois secret beach cracked the list. There were 3,000 American families surveyed over what ...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and officials from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources and the Illinois Capital Development Board have announced plans for two projects to protect roughly 2.2 ...

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ZION, Ill. (CBS) -- CBS News Chicago has been covering concerns about the dilapidated shoreline at the Illinois Beach State Park for years—but now, the once-once forgotten beach has become a model for ...

Local and state officials celebrated the completion of the $73 million Illinois Beach State Park Shoreline Stabilization Project, which promises to preserve 2.2 miles of shoreline from severe erosion, ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- Illinois is among the top five states with the highest frequency of contaminated beaches and Chicago has one of the most polluted beaches in the nation, according to a new report from ...

It's summer in the city, backs of Chicagoans' necks are getting dirty and gritty, and what better remedy is there than a dip in Lake Michigan at a local beach? But at some Lake Michigan beaches in ...