Dust storm warnings are more common in the rural parts of central and southern Illinois. "You don't think that you would see this in the city," Jean-Mastej said. For most areas hit by the dust ...

Chicago saw its first-ever Dust Storm Warning within the city limits Friday as high winds carried dust across most of the area. It came after thousands woke up without power on Friday morning in ...

Parts of Chicago were engulfed by an unusual dust storm over the weekend, reducing visibility to zero. This marks the first occurrence of such a storm in the city since 1934. The National Weather ...

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 ...

A massive wall of dust enshrouded the city of Chicago recently, forcing a ground stop at the Midwestern hub’s airports and stunning the city’s more than 2.6 million residents.. But, while sudden dust ...

In the aftermath of the first dust storm since the 1934 Dust Bowl to hit Chicago, business is surging at car washes like Elston Hand Car Wash in Avondale that are cleaning up.

A rare dust storm struck Chicago on Friday evening prompting weather officials to issue the first ever dust storm warning for the metropolitan area. For a time the visibility was reduced to near zero.

A massive wall of dust enshrouded the city of Chicago recently, forcing a ground stop at the Midwestern hub’s airports and stunning the city’s more than 2.6 million residents. But, while sudden dust ...

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 ...