Chicago’s first dust storm in over 90 years was likely toxic and full of farm chemicals - The historic event may have carried ...

Dust storms have become a growing problem in the Midwest states, with tragic consequences. While changes in weather patterns ...

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.

Climate change is no longer a distant threat; it is a present and escalating crisis that affects every corner of the globe.

A deadly severe weather outbreak spawned at least one tornado in 22 states from May 15 - 21. Among the hardest hit states ...

"A gentle wind followed the rain clouds, driving them on northward, a wind that softly clashed the drying corn," wrote John Steinbeck in Chapter 1 of "The Grapes of Wrath," his Pulitzer Prize-winning ...

The dust that hit Chicago was windblown from farm fields in Central Illinois. Charlie De Mar talked with an expert.

Now that the dust has settled, many are wondering just how and why such an out-of-the-ordinary weather phenomenon happened.