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Chicago is the stage for another major climate conference this week, hosting The Aspen Institute's Climate Conference for the first time. "This is about bringing people together from across sectors," ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Howard Ehrman has seen his fair share of gruesome sights in his 56 years as a physician. But he’ll never forget working at Cook ...

The “Monster Storm” is still unfolding as this is written, and it may yet turn into the predicted cataclysmic disaster of Biblical proportions ballyhooed on TV. But as of midday Saturday, it looks ...

Hail brought my afternoon commute to a standstill this week, which is why my ear perked up at this story from Susan Cosier of Inside Climate News. For 40 days this summer, Illinois atmospheric ...

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It’s the year 2050 on the South Side of Chicago. As I walk near the former U.S. Steel South Works along Lake Michigan on a summer morning, I see more than redevelopment. I see the results of a ...

CHICAGO—In a large, air-conditioned room in East Garfield Park on Monday afternoon, Dhruv Trivedi waited quietly to hear if a bed would be available for him at a local shelter that night. It was a ...

Human-caused climate change boosted the destructive winds and rain unleashed by Hurricane Melissa and increased the temperatures and humidity that fueled the storm, according to an analysis released ...

In 2026, Illinois schools will be required to teach students about climate change. One CPS school in Back of the Yards is well ahead of the curve thanks to one of their teachers. Governor JB Pritzker ...

Stacker compiled statistics about how people in Chicago feel about climate change using data from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. The data is from a survey conducted in 2020. Climate ...

This year, Chicago’s downtown Riverwalk will see climate change-themed projections light up the night as Art on theMart returns with its spring 2022 programming, presented in partnership with Shedd ...