Chicago author Barb Rosenstock writes award-winning books for children of all ages. Her young-adult nonfiction book “American ...

Ever wanted to sleep in a train car without the questionable dining car food or the guy snoring in the seat behind you? The ...

Buffalo's legendary snowfall totals are largely the result of one unlucky geographic reality: the city sits east of the Great ...

Here's a look at the 10 largest islands on the Great Lakes, spread among U.S. and Canadian waters across the lakes.

The Great Lakes were much larger 15,000 years ago. This map shows the earlier, larger versions of the lakes, while the red marks identify the iceberg plowmarks found by researchers.