CHICAGO – Due to westerly winds and above-freezing temperatures, ice has been breaking away from Lake Michigan. On Monday, WGN’s tower camera on top of the Hancock Center captured ice floes ...

He’s about to freeze his flapjacks off. A Chicago life coach braved single-digit temperatures to walk across “ice pancakes” that formed in Lake Michigan this week, a chill-inducing Instagram ...

That winter, the lake achieved maximum ice coverage of more than 95 percent following some incredibly cold weather in January and February. In Chicago, those months produced a total of 17 subzero ...

A wind chill warning that had been in effect for Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, Lake, McHenry and ... switches and tracks to freeze in the Chicago area.

Chicago is experiencing a wave of frigid temperatures, with the month of January seeing dips as low as 15 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s allowed for Lake Michigan to freeze over and develop ice ...

Ice fishing event on Wonder Lake. The Chicago Fishing Advisory Committee ... The ice continues to thicken on island lake with The deep freeze temperatures. We have almost 10 inches in our area.

Chicago is experiencing ... According to the NWS, ice jams can occur when long spells of cold weather cause rivers and lakes to freeze. "A rise in the water level or a thaw breaks the ice into ...

Dale Bowman Share Ice fishing is areawide, for now, around Chicago and ... over the weekend. The lake there is about the biggest body of water I fish in the area-last to freeze and last to warm ...

Despite weeks of freezing temperatures this winter, a long stretch of water on Crystal Lake ... not freeze at all. “Why is it always the last thing to freeze? Why did we have a foot of ice ...

CHICAGO - It was a chilly start to the week with highs in the 50s and scattered lake effect rain showers ... showers and thunderstorms possible. A Freeze Watch has been issued for the western ...

CHICAGO - Lake effect ... 9 a.m. Wednesday. The Freeze Warning includes McHenry, DeKalb, Kane, Kendall, Grundy, and LaSalle Counties. The Frost Advisory includes Lake (IL), northern Cook, DuPage ...