In a social media post, Governor JB Pritzker announced ... a proclamation declaring that hereinafter, Lake Michigan shall be known as Lake Illinois. The proclamation has been forwarded to Google ...

President talks about “powerful fish” during visit to Oval Office by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and state House Speaker Matt Hall.

Federal cuts might hamper environmental enforcement for the Great Lakes, so state and local governments and volunteers are ...

Washington ― Bipartisan members of Congress from Great Lakes states are urging the state of Illinois to "promptly ... state's waterways from infiltrating Lake Michigan. "This project is ...

President Trump said he, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall discussed the need to keep Asian carp out of Lake Michigan.

Democratic Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has apparently joked he is renaming Lake Michigan as 'Lake Illinois,' and annexing Green Bay from neighboring Wisconsin, in an apparent attempt to poke fun ...