While dust storms are not common throughout the Midwest, they're extremely rare in the Windy City. The most recent dust storm to affect Chicago took place on May 31, 1985, ...

Skylar Diggins-Smith turned in a vintage performance in the Windy City on Thursday night, torching the Chicago Sky for 21 ...

A new report from the weather service says the dust storm last month, which prompted the Chicagoland area’s first-ever dust storm warning, impacted Lake County. The National Weather Service (NWS ...

Soil and Water Conservation Districts have worked with farmers for decades in every U.S. state to reduce soil erosion and ...

Trees and power lines came down in parts of the area. Damage was reported in Bolingbrook, Naperville, and other communities ...

Air quality in the Chicago area has remained poor for three days in a row, the NBC 5 Storm Team reported Wednesday morning.

On May 16, Chicago saw its first major dust storm since the Dust Bowl, which stretched from Texas to New York in the early 1930s and deposited 300 million tons of soil across the nation — 12 ...

In this FOX 32 special report, we take a look at the Chicago dust storm and the impact the small dust particles can create.

The Independent quotes Stuart Evans about Chicago’s first dust storm in over 90 years.“In a place like Illinois where the source of the dust is agricultural … trends in dust can be very strongly ...

The NWS Chicago office confirmed that it's been close to a century since the city was hit with an event of this proportion; that storm took place in the early to mid-1930s, during the Dust Bowl ...