Portage June 16, 2023 5:07 pm 7-year-old boy dies after drowning in Lake Michigan in Portage A 7-year-old boy died Thursday after being carried deep into the water by treacherous waves in Lake Michigan in Portage, NBC Chicago’s Lexi Sutter reports. Local 5:26 Dismissed: Racial disparities and the difficulty of prosecuting sexual assault cases 1:20 Three houses engulfed in multiple-alarm fire in Jefferson Park 6:55 NBC 5 Nightly Update: Tuesday, May 21 3:20 Norwood Park native and wrestler Joe Rau chats about the Paris games ahead of his 1st Olympics 2:40 Experts offer advice to those with entomophobia – or fear of insects – as cicada emergence begins