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Air quality alerts issued across Illinois. But how safe are you inside your home?
Air quality alerts issued Thursday in Illinois because of Canadian wildfire smoke marked the latest bout in an increasingly common summer occurrence. The alert covers 34 Illinois counties designated as having unhealthy air for all residents.
Air quality alert in effect due to wildfire smoke
An Illinois Air Pollution Action Day is declared when weather conditions are such that widespread ozone and or particulate levels are expected to be at or above the Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups (USG) category of the Air Quality Index for all or almost all of Illinois.
For the first time in what felt like years, Festa Italiana over Boylan Catholic High School went on without any high heat and ...
The "unhealthy" air, which ranks as level four of six on the Air Quality Index, comes after multiple consecutive days of air quality alerts.
CHICAGO The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Illinois EPA) and the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) are ...
National Weather Service officials called an air quality alert in effect until midnight as well as a beach hazard warning.
Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota are under air quality alerts for unhealthy conditions as Canadian wildfire smoke ...
Smoke from Canadian wildfires settled over Chicago Thursday, with air quality reaching “unhealthy” levels for everyone. Air quality was far worse in parts of Canada closer to the fires.
"The air quality is officially dangerous in Chicago," says Brian Urbaszewski, director of environmental health programs at ...
Smoke has continued to cloud Illinois' air for a second straight day, but the poor air quality isn't because of a fire in the ...
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