A rare dust storm warning was issued for much of the Chicago area Friday night as fast-moving wall of dust blanketed the city and suburbs in a thick haze. The National Weather Service's Chicago ...

A tall, imposing plume of agricultural sediment blew from central Illinois and over dry farmland to envelop Chicago ... U.S. “It’s pretty rare to have dust storms in Illinois,” said Trent ...

A time-lapse video shows how quickly the Chicago skyline ... especially after dust storm alerts hit their phones. Jean-Mastej pulled off and took out his phone to record the rare sight.

A new report from the National Weather Service concluded that a combination of drier soil, recent agricultural tilling, and dry windy conditions formed the rare dust storm that swept through Central ...

Chicago was engulfed by a massive dust storm on Friday evening(May 16), marking the first time the National Weather Service (NWS) issued a dust storm warning for the city. The sudden "wall of dust ...

A rare dust storm swept in from the southwest and enveloped the Chicago metropolitan area Friday evening, darkening the sky and creating eerie images. Visibility dropped to near zero and winds ...

The National Weather Service issued a dust storm alert for northern Illinois until 8:30 p.m. Friday. Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times Share Most of the Chicago area was blanketed in a cloud of ...

However, that warning was away from the metro area. This was the first Dust Storm Warning that included the city of Chicago. The rare storm also posed new obstacles for the local National Weather ...

But, while sudden dust storms can be dangerous, the lesser known harms lie in the windswept particles themselves — with the Chicago dust storm likely to contain lead, farm chemicals and ...