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

The Chicago Fire Department responded to about 90 calls between the extreme heat and people in distress in the water, ...

Record high nighttime temperatures, a dangerously high heat index and intense humidity swept through Chicago from June 21 to 23, marking the city’s first major heat wave of the summer. Ahead of the ...

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

Cities across the eastern and central United States are bracing for more days of extreme temperatures as a unusual June heat ...

Fourth of July is less than two weeks away. Will the heat wave be over by then? Here's the forecast for Illinois.

Chicagoans can expect intense heat compounded by muggy humidity for the next several days. The National Weather Service has ...

Record-breaking heat indices — a combination of temperatures and humidity to determine how heat really feels to the body — are possible from Kansas City to Maine.

Cook County and Chicago are under an Extreme Heat Warning starting Saturday morning, a Heat Advisory has been issued for the ...

Widespread 90s, even perhaps a few 100s, will bake much of the eastern two-thirds of the country in a dangerous heat wave.

A Midwest heat dome is driving high temperatures and high humidity that will push the Chicago heat index into the triple digits this weekend. Here's where you can go to cool down when the weather gets ...