Tom Skilling has spent seven decades studying the weather. That won’t stop with retirement.
Skilling plans to retire at the end of February after more than 45 years at WGN-TV, bringing an end to a career that started as a 14-year-old in Aurora.
Skilling plans to retire at the end of February after more than 45 years at WGN-TV, bringing an end to a career that started as a 14-year-old in Aurora.
The five additives, including red dye No. 3, would be banned from retail sales of foods and beverages in Illinois by 2027.
Invasive carp could threaten the $7 billion recreation and commercial fishing industry around the Great Lakes.
The National Weather Service reports 120 tornadoes were confirmed in the state in 2023.
An ordinance to be introduced Wednesday in Chicago’s City Council would raise emissions standards and force new buildings to go electric.
An April hearing is scheduled to finalize the settlement.
High temperatures have not gone above 5 degrees for three consecutive days. That hasn’t happened since February 1996, the National Weather Service says. CPS classes will resume Wednesday.
As temperatures plummeted to their lowest this season, the homeless outreach program of Thresholds, a North Side-based mental health provider, worked overtime to canvass the city handing out warm clothes, meals and offering shelter.
The car owners’ plight at several Supercharger stations became an emblem of the misery extreme cold is inflicting on wide sections of the U.S.
The expected high temperature Tuesday is 0 degrees at O’Hare Airport, the National Weather Service reported. DePaul, Roosevelt, Northeastern Illinois University and Columbia College will be closed.