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"The air quality is officially dangerous in Chicago," says Brian Urbaszewski, director of environmental health programs at ...

A car crashed through the front of Portillo’s restaurant in Oswego, a suburb of Chicago, around lunchtime Wednesday, ...

The hazy skies in the Chicago area are the visible sign of the poor air quality Thursday as smoke from Canadian wildfires ...

In a newly sown wheat field, Curtis Liebeck scoops up a fistful of sandy soil and lets it pour through his fingers. The light ...

Heathrow, Gatwick, London City, Birmingham, Edinburgh and Manchester airports were among the airports hit by the outage that ...