CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Chicago area was under an air quality alert Wednesday due to the Canadian wildfire smoke. Environmental officials said the pollutants from the smoke will be sticking around 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 ...

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 ...

severe storms, including strong winds, heavy rain, and hail, hit the Chicago Metropolitan Area on Wednesday afternoon ... Cook County, Illinois, US Video Recording Date/Time: March 19, 2025 ...

That means much of Illinois went from severe weather ... On Wednesday evening, parts of the Chicago metropolitan area faced tornado warnings, only to see plummeting temperatures just hours later ...

The Chicago metropolitan area and Cook County both saw slight increases ... both nationally and in Illinois, according to provisional numbers, Percheski said. Death rates also decreased from ...

Kendall County was the fastest-growing county in the Chicago metro area, with its population increasing 2.1%. Cook County’s population increased 0.8%. By comparison, Illinois grew 0.5% last year.