Paul Vriend's photo of a beaver swimming at Jackson Park leads the notes package from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.

Sprawling across more than 200,000 acres in Northern Minnesota, Voyageurs National Park is a maze of streams, ponds, and ...

The recently remodeled 'white on white' home sits on a 5.5-acre property with over 400 feet of private Lake Michigan beach ...

Night - Clear. Winds NNW. The overnight low will be 16 °F (-8.9 °C). Sunny with a high of 47 °F (8.3 °C). Winds variable at 4 to 10 mph (6.4 to 16.1 kph). Mostly cloudy today with a high of 52 ...

Night - Partly cloudy. Winds from W to WNW at 6 to 14 mph (9.7 to 22.5 kph). The overnight low will be 12 °F (-11.1 °C). Sunny with a high of 26 °F (-3.3 °C). Winds variable at 5 to 16 mph (8 ...