Party at the Pier highlights a new attraction: mini golf
CBS 2's Lauren Victory is joined by Miguel Alfaro from Navy Pier to talk about the latest activity to hit the pier, where participants can hit a goofball to score a hole-in-one.
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CBS 2's Lauren Victory is joined by Miguel Alfaro from Navy Pier to talk about the latest activity to hit the pier, where participants can hit a goofball to score a hole-in-one.
CBS 2's Lauren Victory clinks glasses with Malik Miller of Margaritaville, located at Navy Pier, as he talks about why it's a special place (with a signature drink) pleasing Chicagoans and tourists alike.
CBS 2's Lauren Victory talks to Miguel Alfaro, the programming manager at Navy Pier, about the entertainment taking place this month at Chicago's Navy Pier.
CBS 2's Lauren Victory reports from a Lake Michigan cruising vessel where many people are enjoying the weather on a party boat.
It happened Wednesday around 1:30 p.m., one mile from the Lake Bluff shoreline.
Deputies on the Sheriff's Marine Unit Lake Michigan Watercraft were patrolling when they saw two 16-year-olds, a girl from Lake Bluff and a boy from Wauconda, floating outward toward the center of Lake Michigan.
On Saturday, a man fell off a boat at the so-called Playpen near Navy Pier. It was not clear if this discovery was connected.
Police said the man's body was located Wednesday around 7:50 p.m.
On Saturday, a man fell off a boat at the so-called Playpen near Navy Pier. It was not clear if this discovery was connected.
Organizers said some of their kids join more advanced sailing programs.
CBS 2's Sara Machi reports tying knots and finding the wind are the fundamentals of any sailing lesson, but in Montrose Harbor this week, a summer camp with a different mission.
Cristen Bolan, 53, was brought to shore at Montrose Harbor and was pronounced dead. Her friend on the boat was able to swim 2 miles to shore.
The family of the 53-year-old woman who died after a sailboat capsized in Lake Michigan over the weekend was left wondering what went wrong. Michael Bolan said his daughter, Cristen Bolan, known as Chrissy, created energy everywhere she went and loved the adventure of sailing. She was athletic, an experienced sailor, and a strong swimmer, but he believes the temperature of the water is what took his daughter's life.
On Sunday, a woman on a sailboat that capsized near Winnetka swam 2 miles to get help, while the body of another woman who had been missing was later pulled from the water.
Dave Benjamin, co-founder and executive director of the Great Lakes Surf Rescue Project, said the beginning of “drowning season” coincides with the beginning of summer. Benjamin talked with CBS 2's Joe Donlon.
Three separate incidents on Lake Michigan in less than a day led to multiple people needing to be pulled from the water and at least one person dead.
Three separate incidents on Lake Michigan in less than a day led to multiple people needing to be pulled from the water and at least one person dead.
CBS 2's Lauren Victory reports she was found in water miles away near Winnetka. The Coast Guard needed to get her to shore here at Montrose harbor because of the size of its rescue boat.
First responders suspended their rescue search for a missing boater instead, saying any further searches would be a recovery effort.
First responders suspended their rescue search for a missing boater instead, saying any further searches would be a recovery effort.
CBS 2 Meteorologist Mary Kay Kleist has the 5 p.m. forecast for Saturday, June 8, 2024.
Around 3:15 p.m., Evanston police and fire crews responded to a call of a swimmer lost in the water at Greenwood Street Beach, in the 1100 block of Lake Shore Boulevard.
All Evanston beaches were closed to swimmers as rescue crews searched the water earlier.
Scientists who monitor the Great Lakes say Lake Michigan is warming by about one degree Fahrenheit every 20 years.
Victoria Moreno, 35, is charged with three counts of murder, one count of aggravated battery to a child, and two counts of aggravated kidnapping in the death of Josiah Brown.
