The Chicago area was under an air quality alert Wednesday due to the Canadian wildfire smoke.Environmental officials said the ...

The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency issued an Air Pollution Action Day for June 5 due to elevated particle pollution ...

The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency issued an Air Pollution Action Day for the Chicago Metropolitan area for June 5.

Lawmakers still have time to avert a $771 million fiscal cliff. But transit agencies like the CTA will start planning now for ...

With COVID-era funding set to dry up, Illinois officials are scrambling to address public transit concerns, with one new plan drawing intense scrutiny.

The bill would replace the Regional Transportation Authority, which oversees CTA, Metra, and Pace, with a new entity called ...

Chicago home prices are rising three times faster than the national average, bucking the broader slowdown in the U.S. housing ...

A rare dust storm swept in from the southwest and enveloped the Chicago metropolitan area Friday evening ... thunderstorms moving across central Illinois. Farm fields were being prepped for ...

The first time was on May 7, 2023, but that warning did not involve the Chicago metropolitan area. Friday's warning ... were moving through northern Illinois and northwest Indiana.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago saw its first-ever Dust Storm Warning within the city limits Friday as high winds carried dust across most of the area. It came after thousands woke up without power on ...

Dust storm warnings continued across the Chicago area into the evening ... a few thunderstorms will pass over the northern Chicago metro over the next 1-2 hours," the NWS warned.