A fast-moving dust storm swept across the Chicago area Friday evening, creating an eerie sight as a thick haze quickly blanketed the region.

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

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

Chicago’s first dust storm in over 90 years was likely toxic and full of farm chemicals - The historic event may have carried lead, pesticides and other metals ...

May 16th, 2025 continues to be an interesting weather day and is keeping meteorologists like me on their toes. Earlier in the ...

Donation Options Search Search Search A group of people pack up their picnic gear as a dust storm blankets the area at Montrose Harbor on Friday. Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times Share Chicago ...

A tall, imposing plume of agricultural sediment blew from central Illinois and over dry farmland to envelop Chicago, dropping visibility to near zero last week during a type of dust storm mostly ...

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 large dust storm swept through the Chicago area Friday, coming on the heels of a night of severe thunderstorms Thursday that left over 100,000 people without power. Temperatures remained very ...

A time-lapse video shows how quickly the Chicago skyline disappeared as the wall of dust blew through. "This looks like a bad thunderstorm coming through, but you can tell that it's just not a ...

The last dust storm to hit Chicago occurred on May 31, 1985 — and the last one of this kind of magnitude in Chicago happened during the Dust Bowl in the early to mid-1930s.