Excerpt from "Promontory Point: Lake Michigan at 55th Street, Chicago, 1937-1987" by John McDermott, Jr. Click here for more information on the history of the Nike missile battery based in Jackson ...

The Federal Aviation Administration briefly closed airspace Sunday over Lake Michigan to support "Department ... object” shot down with a missile by U.S. fighter jets Sunday over Lake Huron ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The body of a man pulled from the "Playpen" area of Lake Michigan Wednesday evening has been identified as a boater who went missing over the weekend. The Cook County Medical ...