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 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.

Day turned to night in northwest Indiana and north-central Illinois on Friday as a rare dust storm ... a large area that includes Chicago, had ever issued a dust storm warning for the city.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...