Our cumbersome old aluminum canoe slipped through the Mazon River last Sunday on a voyage that I`d wanted to make for a couple of years. I`d heard much about the Mazon, that hard-to-find finger of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Most of the rivers across northeast Illinois ...

A five-day flurry through the Windy City’s best paddling, from the remote Des Plaines to the Mazon and the Chicago River’s downtown ‘canyon’ splendor. The urge to escape the concrete jungle is a ...

It’s a question of law Illinois courts have not fully addressed before and one over which different states have vastly different policies. The case involves two property owners who own land along the ...

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