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The JAMA Pediatrics study has echoes of the Flint water crisis

Michigan's current risk of wildfires, trailer park worries, Ocean beaches vs Great Lakes beaches, and Chicago sells off more Lake Michigan water.

Each spring in Chicago, bird watchers eagerly await the return of a sort of celebrity couple: the piping plovers Monty and Rose. The pair has many fans in the city, a beer named in their honor, and a documentary about their journey. On today's episode, we talked to the film's director about Monty and Rose's epic story of love and conservation.

It took some 36 hours of looking in Humboldt Park's lagoon, but a Florida alligator specialist finally brought in an animal that had become something of a celebrity in Chicago.

Canada geese have been spending their winters farther north.Scientists have figured out geese are drawn to cities for safety more so than for food.Michael…

A live Asian carp was found about nine miles from Lake Michigan, according to state and federal officials.The Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee…

On Michigan Radio, we don’t normally cover baseball outside the state. But we have to make an exception this week, because the Chicago Cubs beat the…

It's a bad day to be flying from any of Michigan’s major airports through Chicago.An incident at an air traffic control tower in Illinois is causing…

CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago and the Detroit area stand to reap millions of dollars in federal grants and private sector investment as part of White House…

Beginning Tuesday, the subsidy that Amtrak gets from the state of Michigan is about to triple, from $8 million to nearly $25 million a year. The reason…