Area fire departments, including Zion, Winthrop Harbor and Beach Park, say they’ve seen an increase in water-related calls ...

A mother and her 14-year-old daughter were rescued from Lake Michigan at Illinois Beach State Park Thursday evening. The Lake ...

Not ready to say goodbye to summer? Check out boating, swimming, and fishing at these Illinois state park beaches.

A woman was critically injured and her teen daughter was also hospitalized after a water rescue Thursday at Illinois State ...

A mother and her 14-year-old daughter were having trouble swimming when bystanders came to their rescue, authorities said.

The body was recovered on Friday in the general area of the north beach. Coroners identified the victim as 14-year-old Kyle Williams of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. An autopsy conducted on Friday at the Lake ...

The last time CBS News Chicago spoke with Hucker was in July of 2019 —when his beloved Illinois Beach State Park was shrinking at a rate of about 100 feet per year, and the entire area was in ...

Illinois Beach State Park is a bit like someone took Big Marsh Park, Montrose Beach, and Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie and mashed them together like an early-2000s RJD2 banger.

On Wednesday, Governor JB Pritzker announced the creation of a new endowment for Illinois state parks, with the intention of ...

An operator with Campanella & Sons works on distributing newly arrived sand at the north unit of Illinois Beach State Park in Zion on Aug. 27, 2019. Illinois Department of Natural Resources ...