In mid-May, a giant wall of dust paraded across parts of the U.S. Midwest, and, thanks to the National Oceanic and ...

CPS has offered some arts programs, but the 1970s marked a significant decline in funding for the arts across the United ...

Hazy skies from fires are reminiscent of 2023 when Chicago was the second-most-polluted major city in the country.

Another large fire exacerbated by climate change is threatening the health of Chicagoans. Government officials issued an air ...

Chicago’s air quality was among the worst in the world after Canadian wildfire smoke drifted south to create unsafe ...

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Smoke from Canadian wildfires continues to plague the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes region, with multiple states under air ...

We’ve calculated travel time from Amtrak stations in Hartford, New Haven, Stamford and Croton-on-Hudson to several popular ...

Oxford Economics released its 2025 Global Cities Index, which compared cities around the world. This year's rankings include ...

The fires have forced more than 27,000 Canadians in three provinces to flee their homes, and the smoke has even reached ...

More than 25,000 residents in three provinces have been evacuated as wildfires remained active and diminished air quality in ...