Lake Michigan

Traditional powers near the top of that list, such as Duke and Syracuse, also glumly sit on the sidelines. This year the team that made history is a small, academically excellent Jesuit school on Lake Michigan. A team shoved into Chicago's basketball shadows by another, bigger Catholic university, DePaul, ...

Bleacher Nation Reporter Michael Cerami helps John kick off the show by describing his dive into Lake Michigan as his end of the bargain for when Chicago Cubs center fielder Ian Happ got a home run Thursday. Then, Politico, CNN and Democracy Journal Reporter Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza explains ...

WATCH: Chicago Cubs reporter jumps into Lake Michigan because Ian Happ blasts lead-off homer ... Bleacher Nation Cubs reporter Michael Cerami tweeted Thursday that if Ian Happ opened the Chicago-Miami game with a home run, Cerami would jump into Lake Michigan. If Ian Happ leads off today's ...

Everyone utters words that they end up regretting at some point, but at least they're seldom recorded and are usually quickly forgotten. Well, not so much when the words are written on social media, as a sportswriter learned Thursday. Reporter Michael Cerami, who covers Chicago Cubs for Bleacher Nation ...

The cisco (aka lake herring, Coregonus artedi) was one of the most abundant fish in Lake Michigan before unregulated commercial fishing, invasive species, and habitat degradation took their toll. By the mid-1960s, cisco were nearly wiped out. Most of their deepwater cousins also disappeared from the ...

Not only did Congress fund it and the usual wetlands protection and anti-pollution programs, they mandated that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers finally finish and submit a report on what more can be done to keep Asian carp from getting into Lake Michigan, especially by making the locks safer in Joliet, ...

Michigan's Lake Michigan shoreline boasts the biggest recorded market for lakefront homes in the U.S., according to a quarterly real estate report. Lake Home Realty, a multistate lake real estate company, recently released its winter 2018 lake market report, highlighting the Michigan shoreline as the ...

GRAND HAVEN TOWNSHIP, MI -- A home that was under construction along Lake Michigan was gutted by fire early Saturday, fire officials said. Eight fire departments responded to the blaze in the 12000 block of Wilderness Trail, just south of Grand Haven. Firefighters were called to the gated community ...

Group Opposes Plan to Draw Lake Michigan Water for Foxconn. Wisconsin conservationists are expressing opposition to a proposal to draw 7 million gallons of water daily from Lake Michigan for the manufacturing plant Foxconn Technology Group plans to build. March 22, 2018, at 2:58 p.m.. Group Opposes Plan to Draw ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin conservationists are expressing opposition to a proposal to draw 7 million gallons of water daily from Lake Michigan for the manufacturing plant Foxconn Technology Group plans to build. The Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters sent a petition Wednesday to the ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin conservationists are expressing opposition to a proposal to draw 7 million gallons of water daily from Lake Michigan for the manufacturing plant Foxconn Technology Group plans to build. The Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters sent a petition on Wednesday to the ...

Searching for lost plane, shipwreck hunters find mysterious schooner in Lake Michigan. By Stateside Staff • 4 hours ago. Related Program: Stateside · TweetShareGoogle+Email · An old image of a two-masted schooner ship. View Slideshow 1 of 3. A two-masted schooner similar to what the Lizzie Throop would have looked ...

The Wisconsin-Lake Michigan National Marine Sanctuary was slated to cover “about 1,075 square miles of Lake Michigan and protect 37 shipwrecks and 80 unexplored potential shipwrecks and other cultural resources off the coasts of Manitowoc, Sheboygan and Ozaukee counties,” according to the ...

Poet Daniel Borzutzky's newest collection, Lake Michigan, out from the University of Pittsburgh Press last month, is his latest in a series that explores the underbelly of government, capital, and the privatizing, punitive regime of neo-liberalism—all the acts of violence that uphold current systems of power but ...

Former Milwaukee Bucks coach Jason Kidd has sold his home on Lake Michigan for $2.65 million. (Realtor.com). Former NBA star Jason Kidd, who ranks second on the league's all-time assist list, has sold his lakefront home in Wisconsin for $2.65 million, records show. The Colonial-style estate is set in ...

"Our primary goal is really to harness, acknowledge, respect and use all of the diverse experience, expertise and passion from stakeholders that we have in the Lake Michigan watershed. It's a role that I think is really critical for us as public servants to facilitate and harness all of the creativity and the ...

MILWAUKEE COUNTY – On the first day of Spring, Take Back My Meds MKE, parents of young adults who have struggled with addiction, and environmental leaders urge residents to safely dispose of unused medicine they find during their Spring cleaning. Residents of Milwaukee County can take back ...

SOUTH HAVEN, Mich. — Michigan shipwreck hunters have found the remains of a schooner that sank in Lake Michigan in 1873 during a storm. The Lizzie Throop was found in 280 feet of water along western Michigan's coastline some 15 miles northwest of the city of South Haven, the Michigan Shipwreck ...

The giant Chinese manufacturing company Foxconn is proposing a new plant just west of Racine, Wisconsin. But its request to withdraw 7 million gallons of water a day from Lake Michigan is being called a violation of the Great Lakes Compact. The state of Wisconsin has promised Foxconn $3 billion in tax ...

Part of the Foxconn proposal also calls for the diverted lake water to be treated and returned to Lake Michigan. Can we trust Wisconsin or federal environmental officials to be watchdogs over such a large economic boon to the state? Guess we'll have to if Foxconn gets the fast-track water approval ...

Gov. Scott Walker is rescinding the state's effort to get a national marine sanctuary designation for part of Lake Michigan along the shores of Manitowoc, Sheboygan and Ozaukee counties. The move surprised local leaders along Lake Michigan who say the designation would help protect historic wrecks.

Dozens of concerned residents and activists asked a Wisconsin agency this week to reject an application from the city of Racine todraw 7 million gallons of water daily from Lake Michigan for a proposed Foxconn plant. At a public hearing on the request in Sturtevant, many of those who testified said the ...

With southern Lake Michigan surface temperatures in the mid to upper 30s, the weak on-shore winds Saturday will keep readings along the immediate Illinois shoreline in the 30s, while temperatures “warm” into the lower to middle 40s farther inland. Sunday winds are expected to strengthen more out of the ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has considered declaring part of Lake Michigan a national marine sanctuary, a status that could bring shipwrecks and other underwater resources off Wisconsin's coast under increased protection. Gary C. Klein/USA TODAY NETWORK - Wisconsin.

Crowds near the Mackinac Bridge in Michigan have gotten a rare glimpse at a beautiful phenomenon. In Straits of Mackinac, which connects Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, huge chunks of blue ice have appeared, bringing photographers and visitors to the scene, as Cheryl Santa Maria reports for The ...

Bartlett's plan to start using Lake Michigan water in May 2019 made major strides this week with both a groundbreaking ceremony for the water main on Tuesday and a recommendation of approval for the pumping station and storage tanks on Thursday. Plan commissioners gave their unanimous blessing ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has considered declaring part of Lake Michigan a national marine sanctuary, a status that could bring shipwrecks and other underwater resources off Wisconsin's coast under increased protection. Gary C. Klein/USA TODAY NETWORK - Wisconsin.

SAUGATUCK TOWNSHIP, MI - An environmental group isn't giving up the fight against a marina and home development on a controversial piece of Lake Michigan dune property at the mouth of the Kalamazoo River. Feb. 27 the Saugatuck Dunes Coastal Alliance filed an appeal with the Michigan State ...

SHEBOYGAN – The U.S. Coast Guard and Sheboygan County Sheriff's Office ended a search Tuesday evening without finding anything after a report of a potential person in distress on Lake Michigan, officials said Wednesday. The Coast Guard received a report that someone along the shore had spotted ...

CALEDONIA — Opponents of a proposed diversion of water from Lake Michigan raised worries Wednesday about potential environmental harm if the City of Racine is allowed to supply millions of gallons of water a day to Foxconn Technology Group. But an array of supporters touted Racine's request, and ...

The DNR plays an oversight role because Mount Pleasant is situated in both the Lake Michigan and Mississippi River basins. Thus, it straddles both watersheds. Racine officials have touted the economic benefits of the Foxconn project and say the company's water needs would still fall far below industrial ...

Foxconn's bid for Lake Michigan water is the latest test of the decade-old Great Lakes Compact, an agreement among the region's states intended to make it almost impossible to direct water outside the natural basin of the Great Lakes unless it is added to certain products, such as beer and soft drinks.

The ice on portions of Michigan's Great Lakes has turned blue, but don't worry, there's a perfectly good reason why. The phenomenon is common on glaciers, but not so much on large swathes of lake ice. It's happening where Lake Michigan meets Lake Huron, at a place called the Straits of Mackinac.

Situated along the banks of Lake Michigan, the Rosy Mound Natural Area in Grand Haven features hiking trails, boardwalks and gorgeous views of the lake ... The park is located at 13925 Lakeshore Drive, just four miles from Grand Haven State Park, a 48-acre scenic stretch along Lake Michigan that offers ...

Waukesha's estimated $286 million Lake Michigan water system project will be managed by global contractor Black & Veatch in partnership with Brookfield-based raSmith. The two will serve as the construction manager on the multi-year project to build infrastructure for Waukesha's new water system.

Eric Holcomb approved a plan to use clean sand dredged from the sides of Lake Michigan structures to replenish Northwest Indiana's badly eroded beaches. On Tuesday, the Republican signed into law Senate Enrolled Act 178, requiring companies removing sand from the Port of Indiana and industrial ...