Vast wildfires in Canada are creating impacts well beyond the blazes themselves. Plumes of thick smoke are drifting southward, blanketing large portions of the United States in a hazardous haze, which ...

Temperatures are climbing into the 80s this week, with highs expected to hit 90° by the weekend. Wildfire smoke will continue ...

Chicago’s summer skies are increasingly foul due to Canadian wildfires, especially when the weather otherwise is nicest. This ...

While an air quality alert continues for parts of the Midwest due to smoke from Canadian wildfires, northeastern Illinois was ...

Temperatures are then expected to soar into the lower 90s Thursday through Saturday. The hottest day will likely be Saturday ...

A fire was raging Monday afternoon at a Beggars Pizza restaurant in the south Chicago suburb of Blue Island. The fire broke ...

The National Weather Service issued an air quality alert for the city on Thursday and kept extending it through Sunday night. There was no alert Monday.

However, Lake, Porter, Newton and Jasper counties in Indiana will be under another air quality alert all day Tuesday. The ...

The alert, which goes into effect at midnight. comes as the Chicago area continues to see poor air quality due to the Canadian wildfires.

Smoke from Canadian wildfires continues to affect air quality across the Midwest, though Monday’s conditions were an ...

A stretch of hot, dry weather is expected to build through the end of the week. CHICAGO - Not only has wildfire smoke been a respiratory irritant for the past several days, it has also held ...

Smoke from the more than 700 wildfires burning in Canada is continuing to blanket parts of the Midwest for a final day.