Friday was the first time the city had seen a dust storm since May 10, 1934, which was during the first wave of the Dust Bowl ...

Storms on Friday sent dust from central Illinois farms into the city. Chicago hasn't seen a dust storm that significant since ...

Chicago saw its first-ever Dust Storm Warning within the city limits Friday as high winds carried dust across most of the ...

Dust storms in the Borderland are nothing new, but the severity of the weather events and their frequency have worsened, statistics note. Thomas Gill, professor of Environmental Science and ...

According to the National Weather Service, the last time a dust storm affected Chicago was on May 31, 1985. Newspaper accounts noted the visibility in downtown Chicago got down to four miles.

Scientists in the area were more surprised by the haboob's size than by its pace, with a couple revealing on social media that it was the "largest" dust storm they had ever witnessed. Heavy rain ...

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 ...