‘It’s unreal’: Washington Township volleyball team helps clean up Morgan Township farm destroyed by tornado By Shelley Jones June 16, 2026 at 2:42 p.m. Washington Township volleyball players spent early Tuesday clearing debris from a Morgan Township farm wiped...
Two dead in Portage from using generators after storms; weather service still tallying tornadoes By Maya Wilkins June 15, 2026 at 4:41 p.m. At least 29 tornadoes ripped across Illinois and Northwest Indiana last week, according to preliminary...
Tornado confirmed in Hickory Hills; Calumet City hit with weekend storms By Addison Wright June 15, 2026 at 4:12 p.m. The National Weather Service confirmed Monday it was a tornado that touched down Thursday near...
Last Abraham Lincoln ‘witness tree,’ planted by his Springfield neighbors, is felled by storm By Paul Eisenberg June 16, 2026 at 11:41 a.m. The last "witness tree" across the street from Abraham Lincoln's home in Springfield was destroyed...
29 tornadoes and a derecho confirmed so far in storms that tore through Illinois, northwest Indiana By Adriana Pérez June 14, 2026 at 7:22 p.m. This year's tally of tornadoes in northern Illinois and northwest Indiana is already the third...
Illinois has struggled to secure federal disaster relief under Trump as FEMA denials draw questions By Daniel C. Vock June 14, 2026 at 5:00 a.m. With another storm season underway. FEMA's rejections under President Donald Trump cast a long shadow...
Today in History: EPA orders ban of pesticide DDT By Associated Press June 14, 2026 at 3:30 a.m. On June 14, 1972, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ordered a ban on domestic use of...
Lake Michigan communities outraged by proposed rollback of federal coal ash rules By Christiana Freitag June 15, 2026 at 5:19 p.m. Some storage areas in Michigan City and Waukegan are among the hundreds of sites that...
Once beset by power outages, Puerto Ricans also hit with severe water shortages By Dánica Coto June 12, 2026 at 8:05 a.m. Thousands of Puerto Ricans are struggling with water shortages so severe that the governor of...
El Nino is here and scientists fear it’ll be big, bad and costly with heat, floods, droughts, fires By Seth Borenstein June 11, 2026 at 1:12 p.m. El Nino, Nature’s chaotic climate agent, has formed in a warmed-up Pacific Ocean and is...