Ice coverage may be nearing its peak throughout the Great Lakes in a season that has trended closer to average than originally forecast, as Lake Michigan’s water levels are expected to continue ...

Ice formations in Lake Michigan in Chicago taken by Sharan Banagiri. He told CNN these photo were taken at Loyola Beach at Rogers Park, which is about 10 miles north of downtown Chicago.

Ice and snow build up on Lake Michigan between Oak Street Beach and Ohio Street Beach as viewed from the John Hancock Center on Feb. 16, 2016, in Chicago. Zbigniew Bzdak / Chicago Tribune ...

The lake was also just over 90 percent frozen in 1976, 1979 and 1994, according to the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. The unyielding cold weather has caused the ice on Lake Michigan ...

A Chicago life coach braved single-digit temperatures to walk across “ice pancakes” that formed in Lake Michigan this week, a chill-inducing Instagram video showed.

Lake Michigan covers over 22,000 square miles and is over 300 miles long from north to south. In the winter, ice piles up along the shoreline making for unique formations and dangerous conditions.

Chicago’s shoreline of Lake Michigan is forming ice pancakes due to high ice coverage following weeks of freezing temperatures. Ice pancakes are about 3 to 4 millimeters in diameter, with a ...

CHICAGO - A 24-year-old Chicago student was dangerously walking off the shore of frozen Lake Michigan, where emergency personnel escorted him off the ice Friday morning.. A 911 call was made by ...

A smattering of ice fishing around Chicago and the rebuilding of perch fishing on southern Lake Michigan lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report, there’s also the first mention of ...

Early coho around Chicago and ongoing perch on southern Lake Michigan lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report; ice is retreating inland.

A Chicago student was reportedly rescued Friday after walking off the shore of frozen Lake Michigan. “The person on the ice near 5500 S LSD apparently didn’t realize he was walking on ice ...