Magnet fishing in Chicago sounded like a fun day out until my magnet started catching things that told a different story.

On a recent Saturday at Montrose Harbor, 6-year-old Jojo is dividing her attention between a roly-poly on the ground near a park bench and her pink Barbie fishing rod. Her brother, Andrew, 10, focuses ...

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A popular fishing pier at a park in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood has been flooded for months — and nobody can access it. High water levels submerging the pier also threaten to end a program that ...

The problems causing flooding that left a fishing pier submerged in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood have been corrected. Elmer Mestrovic, a retired special education teacher, takes people with ...