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How our investigation of Friday Morning Swim Club questioned safety versus virality

Thousands of people made the leap into Lake Michigan every Friday morning, flooding social media feeds with the unique experience. The Sun-Times set out to answer questions about the club’s safety.

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Chicago fishing: Perch and still waiting on ice fishing

Perch on southern Lake Michigan and the ongoing wait on ice fishing lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report.

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Father and daughter discover 1871 shipwreck on Lake Michigan fishing trip

Tim Wollak and his daughter Henley, from Peshtigo, Wisconsin, made the find earlier this summer

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Chicago fishing: Perch and what ice?

Perch on southern Lake Michigan lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report; for ice fishing, you need to head north well into Wisconsin.

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A jumble of jumbo perch and history

With the perch being caught on southern Lake Michigan in recent weeks, there’s also been some giant jumbos caught with some history jumbled in.

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Chicago fishing: ‘Little-Man-got-up-at-5’ kind of perch fishing

Perch fishing on southern Lake Michigan leads this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report.

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Chicago fishing: Ice in the Northwoods and perch on the lakefront

Ice fishing finally getting underway in the Northwoods (maybe closer to home) and the continuation of perch fishing on southern Lake Michigan lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report.

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Car veers into Lake Michigan near Streeterville: police

Officers found a blue sedan in the lake in the 800 block of North DuSable Lake Shore Drive around 3 a.m. No one was hurt, but a witness told police three people ran from the scene.

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Chicago fishing: Finding lakefront perch and waiting for the ice to arrive

Lakefront perch on southern Lake Michigan and waiting on ice fishing (maybe next week in the Northwoods) lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report.

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Chicago fishing: Lakefront perch begins, pier passes begin Wednesday

Perch fishing beginning on southern Lake Michigan and pier passes beginning Wednesday, Nov. 15, lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report.

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Chicago fishing: Steelhead, hints of perch, muskies looking ‘swoll’

Steelhead going up and down the Chicago lakefront and some early signs of perch on southern Lake Michigan lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report; plus Kurt Justice noted in the northern Wisconsin report that muskies are looking “swoll”!

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Lake Michigan brings comfort to migrant families from Venezuela

Asylum-seekers from Maracaibo reflect on more blissful times back home before their country was in crisis.

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Go & Show: Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant’s Lake Michigan meeting on Wednesday

The Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant holds one of its Lake Michigan meetings, this one includes research on PFAs and Lake Michigan fish, on Wednesday evening.

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Chicago fishing: New Chicago bait shop, trout opener, shoreline salmon/trout

The opening of a Bridgeport Bait and Tackle, the opening days of fall trout in Illinois and ongoing salmon and steelhead action on southern Lake Michigan lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report.

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Man drives car into Lake Michigan at Belmont Harbor

The driver escaped his car before it was fully submerged.

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Chicago fishing: Shoreline salmon, counting to 1,000 and fall announces itself

Shoreline salmon on southern Lake Michigan continue to lead the sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report, but fall fishing truly arrived with the arrival of real fall weather and Vince Oppedisano reaches a cool mark.

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Hoping on Johnson administration leading Chicago Fishing Advisory Committee meeting

The hope, as the Chicago Fishing Advisory Committee met after the summer hiatus on Sept. 21, is that Mayor Brandon Johnson will resume the long tradition of Chicago mayors sending a representative.

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Skyscraper heartbreaker? Romantic Signature Room atop former Hancock Center closes due to ‘severe economic hardship’

The restaurant and lounge on the 95th and 96th floors of the former John Hancock Center is permanently closed. ‘It is with a heavy heart that we announce the permanent closing of our beloved Signature Room at the 95th,’ a letter posted in the elevator lobby reads.

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The Independent UK

Flamingos in Wisconsin? Tropical birds visit Lake Michigan beach in a first for the northern state

Five flamingos that showed up in Wisconsin to wade along a Lake Michigan beach attracted a big crowd of onlookers eager to see the unusual visitors venturing far from their usual tropical setting

The Independent UK

Historians race to find Great Lakes shipwrecks before quagga mussels destroy the sites

Historians are racing to locate Great Lakes shipwrecks before a seemingly unstoppable invasive mussel destroys them and erases part of the region's heritage

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago sues Monsanto for PCB pollution over decades

Despite being banned in 1979, products containing PCBs made before that time continue to discharge the chemicals into Lake Michigan and the Chicago River through rainwater, the city alleges.

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Chicago fishing: Waiting on the fall feedbag inland

Shoreline salmon and trout on southern Lake Michigan and hints of the fall feedbag inland lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report.

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Remains of swimmer who went missing off 31st Street Harbor recovered

Bryan Jackson’s body was pulled from Lake Michigan Saturday near Promontory Point.

Chicago Sun-Times

Dragonflies seem to be everywhere along Chicago’s lakefront. Here’s why.

Millions of common green darner dragonflies are migrating across Lake Michigan on their journey from Canada to the Gulf Coast and looking for a place their larvae can survive.

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Relative of missing swimmer calls for more intensive search of Lake Michigan

Police, fire and Coast Guard crews conducted a search for a man who jumped off a boat Tuesday. The man was identified by a family member as Bryan Jackson, 38.

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