About 33 million people, almost 10% of the country, will feel blistering 100-degree heat on June 24, meteorologist Ryan Maue ...

Heat indexes are expected to remain above 100 for the next few days throughout Illinois. Find out when it will cool off.

The area’s first heat wave of the summer wasn’t enough to keep people from celebrating, parading, playing and marching in ...

Zahrie Walls, a friend of Kenneka Jenkins, died on Saturday after she fell from her boat during a boating trip with friends in Chicago.

More than 160 million Americans are under the highest level of extreme heat alerts during a wave of above-average ...

Sixteen people were sent to the emergency room for heat-related illness following two New Jersey high school graduations ...

The heat wave is lingering in the Chicago area as temperatures hit 90 degrees for the third day in a row. The scorching temps had everybody trying to find ways to cool off, including at public pools ...

A heat dome occurs when a large area of high pressure in the upper atmosphere acts as a reservoir, trapping heat and humidity ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Chicago area will be undergoing another day of extreme heat Monday. A National Weather Service Extreme ...

A total of 60 opioid overdoses were reported Friday and Saturday — including more than 37 on Saturday alone — triggering the ...

The city remains engulfed in a heat dome — and scientists and researchers in Chicago who pay close attention to heat have ...

Chicago is experiencing a dangerous heat wave with the OEMC providing resources like cooling centers and safety tips, and ...