Looking for a getaway that is not far from home, but yet feels like it is a retreat from daily life? The best lake house getaways near Chicago are only a short drive away, will aid in alleviating ...

For the Hultquist family, there is only one place on Earth to spend summers: their Holy Island cottage in Northern Michigan. Some 16 years back, a friend of Jim Hultquist’s invited him to bring his ...

“I made my first mental maps of the world...on the shores of Lake Maxinkuckee. Because everything about that lake was imprinted on my mind when it held so little and was so eager for information, it ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. The next owner of a charming cottage between Lake Michigan ...

If walls could talk, these cottage walls would have quite a story to tell. Just a few miles from Elk Rapids on Elk Lake, this Northern Michigan home—with its dramatic fieldstone fireplace that spans ...

The Onondaga County Clerk’s office registered home sales during the week of Oct. 5 to 11. The most expensive home on the list ...

PARK TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Friday afternoon, a contractor started demolishing a lakeshore cottage that was likely going to tumble into Lake Michigan. The cottage on Lakeshore Drive in Park Township is ...

Jennifer Bichanich fondly remembers every design, curve and bit her late husband incorporated into their Lake Minnetonka house in Orono that became known as the "Lighthouse Keeper's Cottage." The home ...