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US air quality map: Chicago, Detroit, DC among cities impacted by Canadian wildfire smoke. Gabe Hauari. USA TODAY. Poor air quality is expected to persist Thursday as the smoke continues to spread ...
More than a month's worth of rain fell on Chicago in 90 minutes on Tuesday evening, according to the National Weather Service (NWS). "There were numerous reports of flooded viaducts, several reports ...
CHICAGO (CBS)-- A recent analysis found that Chicago is the most segregated city in the United States. Yet it is also one of the most diverse. This series of maps tells a compelling story of race ...
Chicago is about to suffer one of the world's worst urban disasters. Track the path of the fire and read accounts of people who lived through it, in this interactive timeline and map. 1.
While most of us can say we lack a fondness for Chicago’s intersections, that isn’t the case for Seattle-based artist Peter Gorman. When Gorman took a year-long, 11,000-mile bike ride around ...
Not many people outside of Chicago know that the city doesn't actually have an officially sanctioned list of neighborhoods like, say, New York. Instead, the city has 77 community areas—which ...
The Chicago race will pass through Grant Park, a 313-acre public park in the heart of downtown Chicago, named after President Ulysses S. Grant. The park, often referred to as “Chicago’s Front Yard,” ...
October 1871: Chicago is a tinderbox. In three months, only an inch of rain has fallen. For days a strong, hot wind has blown in from the southwest.