Juan Macias found active crappie Sunday on the Fox Chain O'Lakes and ended at night with a 15-inch crappie to earn Fish of ...

Ice is rebuilding to lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report; though the forecast snow could alter conditions ...

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker jokingly announced that the name of Lake Michigan had been changed to "Lake Illinois," poking fun at President Donald Trump's Gulf of America. Pritzker posted a video ...

(AP Photo/Erin Hooley) As if the Chicago Bears stealing Ben Johnson from the Detroit Lions wasn’t enough, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker says he is renaming Lake Michigan after his state. In a video ...

Lake Michigan shall be known as Lake Illinois. The proclamation has been forwarded to Google to ensure the world's maps reflect this momentous change." Trump signed Executive Order 14172 on his ...

Enough people are noticing in Illinois that some counties want to secede from the Land of Lincoln and join a state that isn’t ruled by public unions and their political yes-men. In November ...

You’ve probably heard the whispers at some point: Illinois might be the best team in the Big Ten. The Illini are dark-horse Final Four contenders. If this team comes together, there's no telling ...

Night - Cloudy. Winds from NW to WNW at 10 to 11 mph (16.1 to 17.7 kph). The overnight low will be 21 °F (-6.1 °C). Cloudy with a high of 31 °F (-0.6 °C). Winds variable at 7 to 9 mph (11.3 to ...

Lake Michigan shall be known as Lake Illinois. The proclamation has been forwarded to Google to ensure the world’s maps reflect this momentous change.” Wisconsin - notably Green Bay - wasn’t ...

CHICAGO, Ill. (WTVO) — Gov. JB Pritzker said Friday that Illinois plans to annex Green Bay and rename Lake Michigan to “Lake Illinois” in his latest dig at the Trump administration.