FRIDAY NIGHT: Increasing cloudiness, noticeably warmer and more humid. Scattered showers and thunderstorms develop late or ...

Official data says Chicagoland’s first half of August has been mostly dry, despite recent flooding. As for this weekend, ...

Another banner day for area beaches on the final day of summer break for CPS students. Highs well into the 80s with a light ...

It was a clean sweep Thursday! Temperatures reached 90 degrees at all three major observation sites: O’Hare International ...

On Friday, 17 million people are under flood alerts across the Gulf Coast and in the mid-Atlantic, and 19 million are under heat alerts across the mid-Atlantic, southern Florida and Mississippi Valley ...

A historic, deadly heat wave affected much of the Midwest and specifically Chicago in July of 1995. Over 700 deaths were ...

In the 1990s, at least 361 heat-related deaths were recorded by the city Medical Examiner’s Office. In the last 10 years — a ...

This past Thursday should have been a beautiful day, a day to throw open the windows and putter in the garden, long-awaited ...

One reason for the difference is the ubiquity of air conditioning in the U.S. and the relative paucity in Europe.

In this month’s picks, one filmmaker wields his own camera, another looks back on a disastrous Chicago heat wave and a third exposes the illusory workings of the diamond industry.

Major cities under heat alerts include New Orleans, Memphis, Little Rock, St. Louis, Kansas City, Chicago and Minneapolis.

The utility is operating under an expired power-service agreement. That could provide leverage to get more money for people ...