Although this beloved fried fish chain has roots in Chicago, you can also find it in a few other cities in the United States.

The Chicago River was once a heavily polluted mess, a source of deadly diseases like cholera and typhoid fever. The waterway was so dirty that engineers famously reversed its direction in 1900 so it ...

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While there’s no evidence that migrants in Ohio are eating domesticated cats and dogs, Trump Tower may have been illegally killing fish in the Chicago River for nearly 20 years. A Cook County judge ...

Every year as part of the city's St. Patrick's Day celebrations, thousands of onlookers clad in green cheer on a boat crew sprinkling orange powder into the Chicago River to turn it a festive shade.

From fish that can survive in a stream just a few inches deep to fish that survive in the depths of Lake Michigan, “Fishes of the Chicago Region” serves to “expand your imagination," says outdoor ...

A popular fishing pier at a park in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood has been flooded for months — and nobody can access it. High water levels submerging the pier also threaten to end a program that ...