"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, ...

Extreme rainfall events in Chicago, including two observed this summer, are becoming more common as the climate warms.

Last-minute Lollapalooza ticket seekers should beware of scammers and their fraudulent tickets and websites, the Better ...

His approach to climate is in keeping with this attitude—though critics say there’s room for improvement. During Pritzker’s ...

The Illinois EPA said it reviewing the proposal to rescind the declaration issued back in 2009 under President Barack Obama.

Extreme heat is the deadliest weather-related hazard in the U.S., claiming roughly 2,000 people annually, according to data from the CDC.

The proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule rescinds a 2009 declaration that determined that carbon dioxide endangers public health. The head of the Illinois Sierra Club said the move "ups the ...

Growers and researchers in the driest inhabited continent have dramatically increased crop yields through new agricultural ...

A new report highlights the growing insurance crisis playing out in parts of the country that are prone to frequent weather ...

The “endangerment finding” is the legal underpinning of a host of climate regulations for motor vehicles, power plants and ...

Playing in unsafe heat can cause immense stress to the body. Heat exhaustion and heat stroke raise the body temperature, ...