The link between climate change and Chicago’s bad air quality
Bad air quality has affected our region repeatedly this summer and it’s one of the many ways the impact of climate change can be felt locally.
Bad air quality has affected our region repeatedly this summer and it’s one of the many ways the impact of climate change can be felt locally.
Extreme weather impacts all Chicagoans, but outreach workers say the unhoused are increasingly vulnerable.
Kids and screens can be a hard-to-break combination. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
The aurora forecast has changed since Monday and no longer includes Illinois.
Heat can cause the ground to swell and building foundations to slowly sink, but that hot air can be captured and turned into energy, Northwestern researchers say.
Many American cities have been excavating water mains, revealing lead pipes and leaving them there. The work’s disruption of the pipe can also spike lead levels, an investigation by The Associated Press has found.
Chicago officials said the work is expensive and sometimes contentious and it spent its limited funds elsewhere, for example, addressing lead in paint.
Canadian wildfires “are going to burn all summer and into the fall. We might be under the gun again,” one expert says.
Is the mpox emergency over or is there still cause for concern? Numbers are down, but some specialists are still concerned about the likelihood of another outbreak.
Sunday’s storm dropped as much as nine inches of rain in some places. Chicago’s Northwest and West sides were hard-hit.