Each December, the Chicago Tribune publishes its Photos of the Year, a collection of images that chronicle the most significant events and provide evocative glimpses into the lives of Chicago-area ...

Video posted to social media Thursday showed sand frozen like sculptures on the Lake Michigan beachfront in St. Joseph. Here's what to know.

Sand sculptures, or oftentimes called Hoodoos, can form in the sand on the beaches of West Michigan in certain weather ...

The first settler in Jerome Township was George Butts but it was Charles Sanford who arrived in May 1864 and purchased 213 acres of pine land, where the village named in his honor now stands, ...