{"id":36558,"date":"2025-07-03T23:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T23:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/36558\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T23:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T23:30:09","slug":"how-to-check-for-beach-closures-in-chicago-illinois-nbc-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/36558\/","title":{"rendered":"How to check for beach closures in Chicago, Illinois \u2013 NBC Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swimmers were dealt some disappointment for another day as several Chicago-area beaches remained shut down due to high bacteria levels ahead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/tag\/fourth-of-july\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fourth of July<\/a> holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Veterans Park Beach in McHenry County was closed due to &#8220;high bacteria levels,&#8221; as were at least four beaches in Lake County: Bangs Lake, Erker Park Beach, Stanton Bay Park and Pistagua Heights along Lake Matthew, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, elevated levels of Enterococci bacteria <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/suburban-chicago-beaches-closed-high-bacteria-levels-heres-how-to-check-if-your-beach-is-closed\/3780210\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">led &#8220;yellow&#8221; flag conditions to be implemented<\/a> at four Chicago beaches.<\/p>\n<p>A \u201cyellow flag\u201d means that swimming is allowed, but caution is advised. All four beaches <\/p>\n<p>By Thursday, conditions had subsided and swimming was once again permitted at all four beaches: Marion Mahony Griffin Beach, Leone Beach and Loyola Beach in the Rogers Park neighborhood, along with Margaret T. Burroughs Beach in Prairie Shores.<\/p>\n<p>Thinking about going swimming for the holiday weekend &#8211; but want to make sure your beach is open before heading out the door? <\/p>\n<p>You can check to see if a beach is closed on the IDPH website&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/idph.illinois.gov\/envhealth\/ilbeaches\/public\/Default.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beach Guard<\/a>&#8221; system to see suburban beaches closed. In Chicago, the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagoparkdistrict.com\/facilities\/beaches\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Chicago Park District<\/a>\u00a0posts swim conditions for all of the city&#8217;s beaches each day at 11 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swimmers were dealt some disappointment for another day as several Chicago-area beaches remained shut down due to high&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,29863],"class_list":{"0":"post-36558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-illinois-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114791908868240864","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}