The National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center preliminarily confirmed Tuesday's widespread storms as a derecho.

Between tornadoes, wildfire smoke, flooding and heat, the weather in Chicago this summer has been nothing short of extreme. But winter is coming.

The Chicago area was under a tornado warning Tuesday morning, as fast-moving storms swept into the region.

The most widespread destructive winds could unfold in a complex of storms that tracks from eastern Iowa, northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin on Tuesday morning to parts of Indiana and Ohio by Tuesday afternoon or early evening.

“Working with wildlife comes with such highs and lows,” said Carolyn Lueck, president of Lake County Audubon Society.

Calling for reinforcements! It’s a piping plover-palooza in Waukegan where the ratio of hatchlings to adults is suddenly 6 to 1.

According to the survey, U.S. adults are more likely to say extreme heat has had either a “major impact” or “minor impact” on their travel or vacation plans, electricity bills, their sleep, their family’s outdoor activities and more parts of their day-to-day life than in July 2024.

Though Illinois leads the nation in nuclear energy generation, a recently lifted moratorium on new nuclear power plant construction means the race is on to bring new plants online — a task that can take years.

“I had a better chance of photographing a unicorn,” Luke Dahlberg said of discovering the rare bird.

Barely a week after four beluga whales were transferred from Marineland, a defunct Canadian water park, to Shedd Aquarium, the newcomers have already made an impression on their caretakers.

A pair of storms on the front and back ends of July made for a wetter month than normal, according to a National Weather Service summary.

Chicago has a rat problem and it isn't likely to improve if the city doesn't come up with a new playbook, according to a just-released analysis by the city's watchdog.

Chicago was hammered by a pair of storms on Monday that dumped nearly three inches of rain at Midway Airport, where wind gusts topped 70 miles per hour.

Earlier this month, the U.S. House voted to end the twice yearly changing of the clocks by passing the Sunshine Protection Act. As the act makes its way to the Senate where it still needs approval, some are voicing concerns

There are four categories of project improvements on the ballot. Whichever receives the most votes from the public will receive $500,000.

A complicated, high-stakes rescue of 30 beluga whales from a defunct Canadian water park is underway, with four of them arriving Tuesday at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium.