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Cyclists worried over safety of Michigan Ave.’s new bike lanes – City Pulse
By TYLER SCHNEIDER
David Ellis was riding his bike to work one day in 2022 when he was hit by a car. Ellis, who had been riding on the sidewalk, was struck when he entered the crosswalk at Michigan Avenue and Museum Drive in downtown Lansing. He said the driver went through a stop sign.
“Luckily, I was uninjured,” he said. The driver stopped to make sure he “wasn’t dead” then left before police arrived.
For Ellis, this experience was “the catalyst to everything.”
“I asked myself why riding on the sidewalk on Michigan Avenue got me hit. That’s what got me down this rabbit hole. I had inklings in my head that it wasn’t the safest before, but it wasn’t until then that I fully realized that this was a very real, tangible issue we have here,” he said. “I ride almost exclusively in the road now.”
Shortly after the incident, Ellis heard about Lansing’s $14 million Michigan Avenue redesign project, which started last spring and will last through late 2025. In addition to removing one eastbound traffic lane between Howard Street and Pennsylvania Avenue and upgrading water and sewer mains and traffic signals, workers are adding new sidewalks featuring a 6-foot-wide bike lane that is separated by 6 feet from the roadway.
Ellis, 24, a downtown resident who still bikes to work, said the design is unsafe.
“A design that puts cyclists so far away from the right of way and so close to the edge of the buildings makes you less visible and more likely to hit someone or be hit at an intersection. A good design would account for this,” Ellis said.
He was among residents who met with representatives from the city’s Public Service Department in 2022 to discuss how the new bike lanes should be configured.
Mike Dombrowski, 38, a member of both the city’s Park Board and the Lansing Bike Co-Op, was also there.
Both indicated a preference for buffered bike lanes built between the street and sidewalk. Ellis is partial to using concrete bollards to divide them, while Dombrowski favors an elevated curb between the street and bike lane.
At any rate, they said, the city didn’t go with either.
“They seemed pretty on board, and we thought they heard us. But when we saw the designs, they made no changes whatsoever. We were surprised and disappointed,” Dombrowski said.
For Dombrowski, Ellis and other bicyclists, the final configuration was far from ideal.
“Take a bus to Ann Arbor, Detroit, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Chicago or any developed city other than Lansing, and you’ll see properly designed bike lanes,” Ellis said, citing Ann Arbor’s South Division Street as an example.
In 2021, Ann Arbor completed a new, two-way bike lane on the east side of Division Street, separated from traffic by a buffer curb that’s large enough to place trash and recycling containers on. A traffic study that compiled collision data from before and after they were installed found that bike accidents had decreased by 42%. When the city issued a follow-up survey in 2023, 85% of respondents said they were now more likely to bike downtown.
Lansing Public Service Director Andy Kilpatrick said the city did consider a design placing the bikeways next to the street. Kilpatrick cited numerous constraints, including meeting deadlines to use $7.6 million in federal funds for the project. Coming up with a new design would have taken more time, he said.
Kilpatrick added that a separate, street-adjacent bike lane would be more difficult to maintain. If the city followed Ann Arbor’s lead and created another curbed section, he said, the city wouldn’t have the proper equipment to keep it free of debris and snow.
“The other consideration is, at the corners where pedestrians are crossing, either the bikes would have to ramp up to meet pedestrians at the sidewalk level, or the pedestrians would have to ramp down before crossing the bike facility. That creates issues with water ponding, debris and everything else,” Kilpatrick said.
Kilpatrick admitted the project isn’t perfect.
“I think the possible negative is that, now, the bikes are next to pedestrians and there might be some mixing between the two. We’ll have to make sure that we can train the pedestrians for that separation,” he said.
That will come through sidewalk markers as well as signs. Due to the wear and tear of construction equipment, Kilpatrick said the city will have to wait until the process is complete to start painting or indenting the sidewalk to separate the bike and pedestrian sections. In other cities, bike lanes are often stained green, but he said the final markings are still up in the air.
Kilpatrick said the city might add separated, fully buffered, street-adjacent bike lanes along this stretch of Michigan Avenue later. He said traffic levels along the route had been “flat” since roughly 1997 before dropping significantly during COVID. They have yet to return to pre-pandemic levels.
If that trend holds, Kilpatrick explained, the city could then consider removing one of the remaining four lanes to build another 9-foot-wide bike lane along the street. First, they’ll have to conduct a post-construction traffic study to see if usage rates stay stagnant.
“It would be at least 2026 before we could make that change, but we’d essentially be taking a half lane out on either side. So, you’d have about a 2-foot buffer on each side, with the bikes in the middle,” Kilpatrick said.
Similarly, the city could also collect usage data for the bike lanes on the sidewalk to get a feel for how often similar projects could be used.
“We definitely want to start measuring their usage, because, honestly, we need to be able to justify to the public why we’d put them in if they’re not being used,” he said. “If it turns out that they aren’t used a lot, that’s possibly because there’s just not a full network yet. If roads didn’t connect, you’re not going to have a lot of cars using them, either.”
Dombrowski offered a similar comparison.
“If a river doesn’t have a bridge, nobody’s going to be crossing it. But time and time again, when cities have built bike infrastructure, more people start biking,” he said.
As far as the Michigan Avenue project is concerned, Dombrowski said he doesn’t “have high hopes.”
“I don’t know who they designed this for or really wins with this design. A lot of people in the neighborhood feel burned by the city on this,” he said.
According to Kilpatrick, the city will start collecting more input and hearing concerns from pedestrians and cyclists alike when it begins hosting community sessions for its updated Non-Motorized Plan early next year.
“We want to know where people think connections are missing, or about crossings that they feel should be improved. That plan, and the input we get for it, will help us focus our projects for the next five years,” Kilpatrick said.
Like Ellis, Dombrowski believes the city could still be doing more to show that it’s serious about pursuing safe, forward-thinking bicycling infrastructure. He issued a friendly challenge.
“It would be super cool to see Andy Schor bike to work,” Dombrowski said, referring to the mayor. “He lives in the Moores River neighborhood, and you really can’t ask for a much better commute than from there to downtown.”
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When a Detroit woman made an appointment at MassageLuXe to get a massage, she had no idea her masseuse had previously been accused of sexual assault.
The 34-year-old woman fell asleep during her September 2024 massage at the Troy MassageLuXe location, she wrote in a lawsuit filed in August in Oakland County Circuit Court. When she woke up, she said Charles Campbell’s fingers were inside her vagina.
Campbell, a licensed massage therapist, had previously been reported to the Troy police for allegedly sexually assaulting another patient in December 2021, according to a Troy police report. That case was closed with no charges. He was also reported in 2013 to Birmingham police for allegedly sending a client’s private photos from her phone to himself during a massage. He admitted to sending himself the photos, according to the same Troy police report that summarized the Birmingham case, but no charges were ever filed.
Campbell, 46, of Hazel Park was charged Monday in Troy’s 52-4 District Court with one count of third-degree criminal sexual conduct in connection with the assault of the 34-year-old, which is punishable by up to 15 years in prison. When he was arrested Monday, he was working as a massage therapist at the Franklin Spa in Franklin, said Brenda Rogers, who works at Troy’s pretrial services, during Campbell’s Tuesday arraignment.
Campbell did not have an attorney listed in court records and was represented by an arraignment attorney during the Zoom hearing. Franklin Spa did not respond Tuesday to a request for comment.
Despite the multiple allegations against Campbell, he was never reported to the state agency that regulates licensed health professionals in Michigan. In fact, there’s no state law requiring police or non-state licensed health facilities to report misconduct by some health professionals, such as massage therapists, to Michigan’s licensing agency. Campbell did not respond to a request for comment.
“He shouldn’t be able to do anything,” said the woman Campbell allegedly assaulted in Troy. The Detroit News is not naming her as an alleged victim of sexual assault.
“He shouldn’t be able to work in a public eye, period, not if you feel that comfortable to do something like that to a complete stranger,” she said.
Campbell is one of at least 10 health professionals since 2020 who continued to work as licensed health professionals in Michigan even after being accused of misconduct, a Detroit News review found.
Despite three police reports being filed against Campbell, neither police nor his employers ever reported him to the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, the state agency that regulates licensed health professionals, according to a public records request to the department. Campbell has no LARA complaint history. Tara Liles, MassageLuXe Troy’s attorney, declined to comment on the lawsuit or the allegations against Campbell.
Troy Magistrate Elizabeth Chiappelli said during Tuesday’s arraignment that Campbell’s prior contacts with police “look very, very damning.” Chiappelli gave him a $100,000 cash bond and said Campbell cannot continue working as a massage therapist while the case is pending.
Lawmakers consider reviewing state law for reporting changes
According to a Detroit News review of LARA records, more than 150 health professionals have been disciplined for sexual misconduct since 2020.
Under state law, only health facilities such as acute care hospitals, nursing homes, homes for the elderly, hospice facilities, surgery centers, clinical laboratories and health maintenance organizations are required to report to the state when an employee is disciplined or fired.
Some see that as a shortcoming of Michigan’s laws and want to see state law broadened to expand reporting requirements for health professionals, such as massage therapists, disciplined for misconduct. That means if an employee was fired or disciplined for sexual misconduct, their employer would be required to report it to the state’s licensing agency.
At least three Michigan lawmakers said the reporting gaps in state law — especially that police aren’t required to report investigations of health professionals — are worth reviewing for possible legislative changes.
“There’s a lot of different gaps in the way that criminal sexual conduct is handled,” said Rep. Julie Brixie, D-Meridian Township. “I think there are a lot of organizations that have mishandled this in the past, which allows people to continue to abuse others while under the employ of somebody else.”
The 34-year-old Detroit woman who reported that Campbell sexually assaulted her, too, said she was surprised to find the law did not have more protections for patients or clients. She suspected more clients might have been assaulted by the same man who allegedly assaulted her.
What state law requires to be reported to LARA
State law only requires health facilities or agencies that are licensed by the state, along with mental health facilities, to report if a health professional has been disciplined, resulting in changes to the work they are able to do or if the professional has been fired, said LARA spokesperson Emily Fitzgerald. Massage parlors are not considered licensed medical facilities in Michigan.
If a facility does not report this change in staff privileges within 30 days, the Bureau of Community and Health Systems may choose to investigate it for non-compliance with the law and can require corrective actions to be taken.
Every licensed health professional is also required to report any violations of the public health code to LARA if they know of their coworker’s misconduct. They could be disciplined if they do not do this. A review of disciplinary actions over the past six months did not find any cases where coworkers failed to report misconduct. Fitzgerald said LARA does not have the data on how often licensees are cited for this.
“All allegations of misconduct are taken seriously and are reviewed based on the specific facts and evidence involved,” Fitzgerald said in a statement. “Investigations are conducted in accordance with established procedures, and any resulting disciplinary actions are determined through a formal process that includes review and approval by the appropriate professional Board and its Disciplinary Subcommittee, as outlined in the Board and Disciplinary Subcommittee process.”
Of the 150 health professions disciplined for sexual misconduct, 22% were massage therapists and 19% were social workers. The massage therapists’ misconduct was nearly all non-consensual actions, while the social workers were primarily disciplined for inappropriate relationships with patients or clients.
Chiropractors, counselors, medical doctors, nurses, pharmacists, psychologists, physical therapists and one dentist — of whom nearly 80% are men — made up the rest of the health professionals disciplined for misconduct. Their punishment varied from single-day suspensions to license revocations. Some also voluntarily surrendered their license to the state.
About a third of the health professionals were convicted of a crime for their misconduct, though some of the crimes were not related to their jobs.
WMU study finds high rates of serious misconduct in small professions
A Western Michigan University study published this month in the Journal of Medical Regulation found that while sexual misconduct complaints rose 83% from 2011 to 2023, LARA’s total sanctions declined about 4%. Smaller professions, like podiatry and massage therapy, have disproportionately high rates of serious misconduct per capita, the study reported.
The study also found that it takes a lot for someone’s license to be revoked for sexual misconduct. Of 237 sex-related cases, less than 5% resulted in permanent revocation of someone’s license, researchers found.
“You basically have to be Larry Nassar to have your license permanently revoked,” Dr. Tyler Gibb, an associate professor and co-chair of the Department of Medical Ethics, Humanities and Law at Western Michigan, said in a WMU article. “You basically have to be a monster.”
The Western Michigan researchers urged that data-sharing partnerships be formed between LARA, police and public health researchers.
Brixie agreed, referencing the case of disgraced Michigan State University sports doctor Larry Nassar, who is serving an effective life sentence in prison for child pornography and for sexually assaulting hundreds of women and girls under the guise of medical treatment.
Women reported Nassar to police years before he was arrested in 2016, dating back to 2004. Meridian Township police admitted in 2018 that the department failed a 17-year-old girl in the 2004 case after she reported sexual assault by Nassar, and the report was never forwarded to prosecutors.
“If police had reported (the report about Nassar) to the licensing body, I think that would have had a much better outcome or the opportunity for a better outcome,” Brixie said.
The Lansing-area lawmaker has requested that a bill be drafted to require police to report misconduct investigations to LARA for health professionals. It would be added to her bill package on the statutes of limitations.
“This seemed like another backstop that we could put in place that would really make a lot of sense,” Brixie said. “It seems to me that people reporting something to the police is really a first step that a lot of people may choose to take. If we fail to have that trigger the appropriate investigation within the organization, I think that we’re continuing to fail our people and fail to protect people from sex abuse by medical professionals.”
Rep. Julie Rogers, D-Kalamazoo, said pieces of the public health code and Michigan law cover a lot of instances of misconduct reporting. Licensed coworkers have to report misconduct, as do health professionals who spot abuse of a child or vulnerable adult. But she said the training for who has to report what to LARA, the state’s licensing and regulatory affairs agency, is done on an institution-by-institution basis, and not everyone may know about being required to report misconduct to the state.
“Keeping patients safe is very important to me and making sure again these kinds of allegations and situations are fully investigated,” Rogers said. “I’d also say that I think we’d be interested in exploring what LARA does after they get these complaints and how sometimes a government agency’s reporting can be kind of siloed.”
No state record of misconduct after police, company reports
Most of the cases reviewed by The News came from LARA’s health license disciplinary action reports. But several, including massage therapist Campbell and another massage therapist named in lawsuits filed against MassageLuXe locations in Birmingham and Troy, never prompted any investigation by LARA, despite both women reporting their conduct to either police or MassageLuXe. Both massage therapists still have an active license with no disciplinary investigations.
A LARA investigation begins when someone reports misconduct to the department or, in some cases, when LARA staff see misconduct or criminal charges being reported in the media.
LARA investigators conduct their own review of the case, sometimes at the same time as police, when the alleged actions rise to a criminal level. When the investigation concludes, LARA can choose to close the complaint with no action, or it can reprimand a licensee, suspend his or her license, put the individual on probation or revoke a license.
The 34-year-old Detroit woman said she was sexually assaulted in September 2024 by Campbell, a massage therapist at Troy’s MassageLuXe, according to her lawsuit, filed in August in Oakland County Circuit Court. She reported the assault to both MassageLuXe and police, according to the lawsuit.
MassageLuXe Troy’s attorney, Tara Liles, declined to comment on the lawsuit.
Another woman said she reported to the Birmingham MassageLuXe, who did not respond for comment, that in May 2023, a massage therapist there had sexually assaulted her, according to her lawsuit filed in November in Oakland County Circuit Court. The receptionist told her similar complaints had been made about the male therapist, and he was no longer with the company, according to the lawsuit.
Birmingham MassageLuXe did not respond to a request for comment.
If MassageLuXe had been a state-licensed health facility, it would have been required to report the massage therapist’s conduct to LARA. But it was not required to under state law.
The lawsuit related to the Birmingham sexual assault contended that MassageLuXe “systemically and intentionally conspired and concealed the rampant problem, danger and extensive reports of multiple instances of massage therapists at MassageLuXe franchise locations sexually assaulting customers throughout the country, including within the state of Michigan.”
The lawsuit alleged that MassageLuXe encourages the handling of sexual misconduct complaints in-house to “protect the brand” and does not report alleged assaults to police or LARA.
A third lawsuit against MassageLuXe, filed in December in Oakland County, alleged similar conduct by the company after a patient was sexually assaulted by massage therapist Ashraf Mohd-Hussein in May 2024 in West Bloomfield. In this case, Mohd-Hussein was convicted, sentenced to 57 months to 15 years in prison and had his license revoked.
Prior to working at MassageLuXe, Mohd-Hussein worked at the Massage Green Spa in Dearborn, according to LARA records. A woman reported to Dearborn police in March 2023 that he had sexually assaulted her, but the case was closed because there was no evidence of force or coercion, according to the police report contained in LARA records.
In December 2023, another woman reported to Massage Green Spa that Mohd-Hussein had sexually assaulted her. She refused to report the assault to police, according to LARA records, but the owner of the spa told LARA of the report.
Even with two sexual assault reports in his name, Mohd-Hussein was hired at MassageLuXe and sexually assaulted another woman, shoving a towel in her mouth during a massage, holding her hip down, penetrating her vagina and performing oral sex on her, according to LARA records.
MassageLuXe reported this assault to LARA immediately, according to LARA records. MassageLuXe West Bloomfield did not respond to a request for comment.
Women repeatedly reported assaults to Sinai Grace nurses
One highly publicized case of a health professional accused of misconduct involves former Detroit Medical Center Sinai Grace Hospital nurse Wilfredo Figueroa-Berrios. Accused of sexually assaulting multiple women since at least 2020, he faces both criminal charges and multiple civil lawsuits. More than two dozen lawsuits have been filed against him, and eight women are pressing criminal charges in connection with alleged sexual assaults of patients and, in one case, a coworker.
Sinai-Grace spokesperson Tammy Battaglia has defended the hospital’s hiring process as rigorous and said, “There was no indication of a concern during that process.” The hospital spokesperson added that the Detroit Medical Center system doesn’t “condone any type of abuse” and cooperated with law enforcement.
Years before Figueroa-Berrios worked at Sinai-Grace, at least two employees at his former employer, COPE Hegira Health Behavioral Urgent Care in Livonia, allegedly failed to report sexual assault allegations against Figueroa-Berrios to police, which led Livonia Police Detective Jenna Marx to seek a warrant against them for failure to comply with their mandatory reporting duties, according to a 2021 police report
Under the state’s mental health code, mental health professionals must report suspected criminal abuse to police immediately.
Wayne County Assistant Prosecutor Maria Miller said the warrant request for two staffers for failure to fulfill mandatory reporting duties is still being reviewed. If convicted, they face up to 93 days in jail.
Katherine Grisson, the senior director of marketing and communications at Hegira Health, which owns COPE, declined to comment. COPE serves adults and children in need of urgent psychiatric care.
Civil attorney Jim Rasor, who said he has handled many cases of sexual assault by health professionals, said the power imbalance between a patient and provider makes it difficult for victims to come forward and report an assault.
“It’s so egregious, and it happens so much,” Rasor said. “I’ve had cases with medical professionals where women who have been victimized by these serial sexual abusers have gone and told other doctors what happened. The doctors have told them, ‘Do not say that. First of all, I don’t believe my colleague did that. They’re a lot more powerful than you, nobody is going to believe you, and you’re going to look like an idiot.’ … That’s what (the abusers) are counting on.”
Rasor said he often sees cases where LARA knew of sexual assaults, did an investigation and allowed a health provider to go back to work without a chaperone and without modifying their practice.
LARA’s Fitzgerald said the department can’t comment on the accuracy of Rasor’s comment because it doesn’t reference a specific case, reiterating that “all allegations of misconduct are taken seriously and are reviewed based on the specific facts and evidence involved.”
Rasor said the health corporations don’t care about the customers.
“They don’t do their due diligence to protect patients,” he said. “It’s a good old boys’ club. They do everything they can to protect the perpetrators and nothing to protect the patients.”
kberg@detroitnews.com
Michigan has more freshwater shoreline than any other state, two peninsulas, and four Great Lakes for borders. The eleven towns below trade on different parts of that coastline. The wide white-sand beaches of the southwest corner. The dune-walled bays of the Lower Peninsula. The working harbors at the river mouths. The rocky shorelines of the Keweenaw, where mining ran before tourism did. Each town below earns the list because the lake is a daily fact, not a backdrop.
Traverse City
Traverse City sits at the foot of Grand Traverse Bay and runs as the regional hub for northern Michigan, with about 15,000 residents and miles of shoreline along the bay’s twin arms. The town is the eastern gateway to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, where dunes rise more than 450 feet above Lake Michigan and Good Morning America viewers voted the park “the most beautiful place in America” in 2011. Downtown Front Street keeps a working main strip of bookstores, brewpubs, and tasting rooms tied to the surrounding Old Mission and Leelanau wine peninsulas, which produce most of the state’s award-winning Riesling.
Holland
Founded by Dutch immigrants in 1847, Holland sits on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Black River. Windmill Island Gardens runs De Zwaan, a working Dutch windmill that was milling grain in the Netherlands as far back as the 1760s before being shipped to Holland and reassembled in 1964 (it remains the only authentic, operating Dutch windmill in the United States). Six million tulips go in across the city each spring for the Tulip Time festival in May, drawing more than 500,000 visitors over its run. Holland State Park and Tunnel Park run the lakeshore for swimming and dune walks, and the Big Red Lighthouse anchors the harbor entrance.
Ludington
Ludington, the Mason County seat in western Michigan, has about 7,800 residents and a working harbor that still launches the S.S. Badger, the largest passenger and car ferry running on the Great Lakes, on its daily four-hour run to Manitowoc, Wisconsin. The Badger is the last coal-fired steamship in regular service in the United States. The town has miles of beaches along Lake Michigan and Hamlin Lake, plus two lighthouses (one at the end of the breakwater you can walk out to). Ludington State Park, consistently ranked among the best in the Midwest, covers more than 5,000 acres of dunes, marsh, and pine forest north of town with the historic Big Sable Point Light at the northern end of its beach.
Copper Harbor
Copper Harbor, with around 100 year-round residents, is the northernmost community in Michigan, set at the very tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula on the shore of Lake Superior. The peninsula sits on one of the oldest exposed lava flows on the planet and is the only region in the United States where prehistoric copper mining has been documented (Indigenous peoples were extracting native copper here as far back as 7,000 years ago). The harbor itself is rocky rather than sandy, but Hunter’s Point and Horseshoe Harbor open up flat shoreline walks. The Copper Harbor Trails system, built into the surrounding hills, has put the town on the international map for hard mountain biking and is the only IMBA-designated Silver Level Ride Center in the Midwest.
South Haven
With around 4,000 residents at the mouth of the Black River, South Haven runs along a working harbor with the South Haven Light at the end of its red catwalk-topped pier. South Beach, just south of the harbor entrance, has the town’s main swim area; North Beach, on the opposite side of the river, is quieter and longer. Phoenix Street is the downtown commercial strip, with Taste at 402 Phoenix a longtime stop for grilled cheese, sandwiches, and tomato soup. The Michigan Maritime Museum on Dyckman Avenue holds tall ships including the schooner Friends Good Will, a working replica of an 1810 Great Lakes vessel.
Grand Haven
The Grand Haven Musical Fountain, set on Dewey Hill across the Grand River from downtown, runs free water-and-light shows nightly from Memorial Day through Labor Day and has been doing so since 1962, making it the oldest synchronized musical fountain in the country still in regular operation. Grand Haven, with around 10,000 residents, was the first city formally designated a Coast Guard City by Act of Congress, signed in 1998, in recognition of more than a century of close ties to the service. The Tri-Cities Historical Museum covers regional fur-trade and shipbuilding history, and Grand Haven State Park sits at the river’s mouth on 48 acres of beachfront sand.
New Buffalo
In the southwest corner of Michigan near the Indiana line, New Buffalo draws weekenders out to its harbor, a wide white-sand public beach, and a marina that fills up through the summer. The town traces its founding to 1834, when sea captain Wessel Whittaker, headed for Chicago from Buffalo, New York, was shipwrecked along the coast and bought the surrounding land to build a town in his hometown’s image. The Whittaker name still runs through the street grid and the Whittaker Woods Golf Club. New Buffalo Beach, a short walk from downtown, takes up the wide stretch of Lake Michigan shoreline at the harbor mouth.
Muskegon
The name Muskegon comes from an Algonquian word meaning “marshy river,” and the town sits where the Muskegon River, the second-longest river in Michigan, empties into Muskegon Lake and on into Lake Michigan. With about 37,000 residents, Muskegon is the largest of these towns and holds onto a row of preserved Victorian-era mansions. The Hackley and Hume Historic Site keeps two adjoining 1880s lumber-baron homes open for tours, with stained glass, stenciled ceilings, and original woodwork. The Lakeshore Trail runs about twelve miles of paved path along Muskegon Lake and Lake Michigan. Pere Marquette Park, on the lakeshore, holds the South Pierhead Light at the harbor entrance and lines up with one of the longest unbroken Lake Michigan beaches in the state.
St. Joseph
St. Joseph sits on the bluffs at the mouth of the St. Joseph River in southwest Michigan, with about seven public beaches inside the city limits. Silver Beach, at the harbor mouth, is the most-used and pairs with the Silver Beach Carousel (a working 1910-style carousel built in 2010) and a public splash playground. The St. Joseph North Pier Lights, built in 1907, sit on the breakwater connected by a catwalk you can walk out to. About sixteen miles south, Warren Dunes State Park runs three miles of Lake Michigan shoreline and a row of high freshwater dunes used for sand-sliding and hang gliding.
Glen Arbor
Glen Arbor is a Leelanau Peninsula village of around 700 residents, set between Glen Lake and Lake Michigan inside the boundary of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. The downtown is one short main street of art galleries, kayak outfitters, and small restaurants, including Cherry Republic, a longtime regional retailer with a tasting room for cherry wines and ciders. Just outside town, the Crystal River winds through farmland and back into Lake Michigan, and the Sleeping Bear Bluffs rise more than 450 feet above the lake about four miles to the south. The Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail starts a few minutes inland.
Cheboygan
Cheboygan, with about 4,800 residents, sits where the Cheboygan River meets Lake Huron at the head of the Inland Waterway, a chain of lakes and rivers running about 40 miles inland to Crooked Lake. Cheboygan State Park covers about 1,200 acres along the Lake Huron shoreline, with views of the Mackinac Bridge to the west on clear days and the abandoned Cheboygan Crib Light at the harbor entrance. Downtown holds a row of brick storefronts and the restored Cheboygan Opera House (built 1877, rebuilt 1888 after a fire), which still books touring shows.
Where the Great Lakes Touch Town
Across these eleven towns, Michigan’s coastline shows up differently at every stop. The wide white-sand beaches of the southwest. The dune-walled bays of the Lower Peninsula. The working harbors at the river mouths. The rocky shorelines and old mining country of the Keweenaw. None of them are big, and most of them go quiet by the end of October, but the lake doesn’t, and the shoreline rewards the drive in every season.
Powerball, Mega Millions jackpots: What to know in case you win
Here’s what to know in case you win the Powerball or Mega Millions jackpot.
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The Michigan Lottery offers several draw games for those aiming to win big.
Here’s a look at April 27, 2026, results for each game:
Winning Daily 3 numbers from April 27 drawing
Midday: 0-9-9
Evening: 2-0-4
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Winning Daily 4 numbers from April 27 drawing
Midday: 8-7-6-8
Evening: 8-3-5-2
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Winning Poker Lotto numbers from April 27 drawing
JS-6D-2H-5S-10S
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Winning Fantasy 5 numbers from April 27 drawing
18-19-20-33-36
14-25-28-33-39
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Winning Daily Keno numbers from April 27 drawing
02-04-16-19-22-26-40-42-45-46-47-53-60-62-63-65-72-73-75-76-78-79
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Winning Millionaire for Life numbers from April 27 drawing
04-15-19-21-31, Bonus: 04
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Are you a winner? Here’s how to claim your lottery prize
All Michigan Lottery retailers can redeem prizes up to $600. For prizes up to $99,999.99, winners have the option to submit their claim by mail or in person at one of Michigan Lottery’s Regional Offices.
To claim by mail, complete a ticket receipt form, sign your winning ticket, and send it along with original copies of your government-issued photo ID and Social Security card to the address below. Ensure the names on your ID and Social Security card match exactly. Claims should be mailed to:
Michigan Lottery
Attn: Claim Center
101 E. Hillsdale
P.O. Box 30023
Lansing, MI 48909
For prizes over $100,000, winners must claim their prize in person at the Michigan Lottery Headquarters in Lansing located at 101 E. Hillsdale in downtown Lansing. Each winner must present original versions of a valid government-issued photo ID (typically a driver’s license or state ID) and a Social Security card, ensuring that the names on both documents match exactly. To schedule an appointment, please call the Lottery Player Relations office at 844-887-6836, option 2.
If you prefer to claim in person at one of the Michigan Lottery Regional Offices for prizes under $100,000, appointments are required. Until further notice, please call 1-844-917-6325 to schedule an appointment. Regional office locations are as follows:
- Lansing: 101 E. Hillsdale St. Lansing; Phone: 844-917-6325
- Livonia: 33231 Plymouth Road, Livonia; Phone: 844-917-6325
- Sterling Heights: 34700 Dequindre Road, Sterling Heights; Phone: 844-917-6325
- Detroit: Cadillac Place, 3060 W. Grand Blvd., Suite L-600, Detroit; Phone: 844-917-6325
- Grand Rapids: 3391-B Plainfield Ave. NE, Grand Rapids; Phone: 844-917-6325
- Saginaw: Jerome T. Hart State Office Building, 411 E. Genesee Ave., Saginaw; Phone: 844-917-6325
For additional information, downloadable forms, and instructions, visit the Michigan Lottery’s prize claim page.
When are Michigan Lottery drawings held?
- Daily 3 & Daily 4: Midday at 12:59 p.m., Evening at 7:29 p.m.
- Fantasy 5: 7:29 p.m. daily
- Poker Lotto: 7:29 p.m. daily
- Lotto 47: 7:29 p.m. Wednesday and Saturday
- Lucky for Life: 10:38 p.m. daily
- Daily Keno: 7:29 p.m. daily
- Millionaire for Life: 11:15 p.m. daily
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