Saturday offers generous sunshine mixed with puffy fair weather clouds, comfortable temperatures and low humidity. An Air ...

Air quality in the Chicago area has remained poor for three days in a row, the NBC 5 Storm Team reported Wednesday morning.

In 2024, Chicago built new homes at less than half the pace of the nation and at about one-fifth the pace of another of the ...

Urbanization has had visible morphological effects on chipmunks and voles in the Chicago metro area. While both chipmunks and voles have experienced changes to their skulls in response to urban ...

It’s unclear whether any tornadoes touched down in the Chicago metro, but Gary, Indiana, was hit. Then overnight, parts of the Chicago metro area got snow.

A new “Harry Potter” outdoor attraction has been announced for the Chicago area this fall, opening near suburban Gurnee in ...

The city’s median home price reached $400,000 in June as very few listings forced home buyers to pay top dollar.

The first time was on May 7, 2023, but that warning did not involve the Chicago metropolitan area. Friday's warning was the first dust storm warning that included the city itself.

The Chicago-Naperville-Elgin metropolitan area grew by 70,762 people — less than 1% — from July 1, 2023, to July 1, 2024. That was the ninth-largest numeric growth of any metropolitan area in ...

The median price of homes sold in the nine-county Chicago metro area in May was $379,900, according to Illinois Realtors. It's the highest monthly median on record and up 1.3% from the prior ...

But sales prices are not slowing. The median sales price for a home in the Chicago Metro Area in April 2025 was $370,000, up 5.7% from April 2024.