CHICAGO (CBS) – Many in Chicago were still reeling from Sunday's significant rainfall after storms shut down the Riverwalk and many public beaches. CBS's Lauren Victory explained how a decision to ...

Officials with the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago announced Sunday that they have allowed water from the Chicago River to go into Lake Michigan to help alleviate shoreline ...

To reverse the river, engineers would barricade the canals that have been used for more than a century to send the river flowing to the west. With those channels closed, the river would resume its ...

CHICAGO -- The city was in a predicament. By the late 1800s, the slow-moving Chicago River had become a cesspool of sewage and factory pollution oozing into Lake Michigan, the source of drinking water ...