Standing on the same shore she walked for weeks as searchers tried to locate the body of her son, Pamela Barrett made available to everyone else the item that quite likely would have saved him.

A tragedy on Lake Michigan claimed the life of a Chicago hairstylist last month. Zahrie Walls was not wearing a life jacket when she fell off a boat at the Playpen and died. Now a proposed city ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Two Chicagoans stranded in Lake Michigan for seven hours lived to tell their tale. They want others to hear their message: to wear life vests on the water. Friends Kristal Howard and ...