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 ...

In mid-May, a giant wall of dust paraded across parts of the U.S. Midwest, and, thanks to the National Oceanic and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new report from the National Weather Service concluded that a combination of drier soil, recent agricultural tilling, and ...

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 ...