Jack in the Box, Inc. announce its official return to the Chicago metropolitan area with the grand opening of a new ...

The Illinois EPA declared an Air Pollution Action Day in the Chicago metro area. See today's air quality index forecast for Illinois.

Poor air quality was expected across the entire Chicago area Tuesday as an “air quality alert” was issued for all of Northeastern Illinois and Northwest Indiana through midnight.

Inflation in the Chicago area was up about 4.3% in January compared to a year before. That mark was the worst among the 23 metropolitan areas that WalletHub compared.

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 ...

Urbanization has had visible morphological effects on chipmunks and voles in the Chicago metro area. While both chipmunks and ...

The WalletHub report said Chicago’s inflation metrics were more than four times greater than the numbers for Houston, Texas, which had the smallest inflation problem of the 23 metropolitan areas ...

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 ...