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 ...

From the city’s earliest days, Chicago residents and businesses alike dumped waste into the Chicago River, which flowed into Lake Michigan, contaminating the city’s drinking water, causing widespread ...

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 ...