According to the National Weather Service, the last time a dust storm affected Chicago was on May 31, 1985. Newspaper accounts noted the visibility in downtown Chicago got down to four miles.

Climate change is no longer a distant threat; it is a present and escalating crisis that affects every corner of the globe.

A deadly severe weather outbreak spawned at least one tornado in 22 states from May 15 - 21. Among the hardest hit states ...

"A gentle wind followed the rain clouds, driving them on northward, a wind that softly clashed the drying corn," wrote John Steinbeck in Chapter 1 of "The Grapes of Wrath," his Pulitzer Prize-winning ...

A formidable dust storm, propelled by powerful winds, surged across southern New Mexico and western Texas on April 19, 2025, significantly reducing visibility and disrupting daily life. The event was ...

CHICAGO ( WGN) — Friday’s sunny afternoon turned dark as the sun was temporarily blocked out by a rare dust storm that blanketed Chicagoland. A combination of low relative humidity, very dry ...

The dust that hit Chicago was windblown from farm fields in Central Illinois. Charlie De Mar talked with an expert.

Now that the dust has settled, many are wondering just how and why such an out-of-the-ordinary weather phenomenon happened.

Binks was found by a Good Samaritan in Illinois and with the help of a microchip hunter, they were able to track down the owner.

A tall, imposing plume of agricultural sediment blew from central Illinois and over dry farmland to envelop Chicago, dropping visibility to near zero last week during a type of dust storm mostly ...

In the aftermath of the first dust storm since the 1934 Dust Bowl to hit Chicago, business is surging at car washes like ...

Central Illinois is recovering from back- to- back severe weather, but weather officials said more is on the way.