A Midwest Generation plant, owned by NRG Energy along the lakefront in Waukegan, was closed in 2022 and the state has since ordered the company to remove coal ash ponds that remain at the site ...

Hundreds of people were on hand Saturday to gather tons of trash on the last day of Waukegan’s fourth-annual Earth Week.

From a kid with a Chinook salmon that looks as big as him to smallmouth bass up and down the Chicago lakefront, spring is a time to savor fishing on southern Lake Michigan.

Christian Neighbors Church in Waukegan is organizing a volunteer ... and finish with a lunch at 11:30 a.m. Lisa May, the city’s lakefront coordinator, said she is expecting more than 100 ...