Chicago heat wave, which took place 30 years ago this week, remains the Chicago area's deadliest weather disaster.

Incredibly, 30 years ago, four separate derechos raked across parts of the northern U.S. The last of these was a rude awakening on the morning of July 15 in Ontario and the Northeast.

Grammy- and Emmy-winning songwriter whose lyric-writing partnership with his wife Marilyn lasted more than six decades and ...

Chicagoans are stepping up to help one another during another heat wave in the city. The temperature reached 94 degrees ...

As one of the first major Hollywood studio films to address racism in the immediate aftermath of the Jim Crow era, In the Heat of the Night quickly gained a reputation for being one of the most ...

Tool shows history of heat-related deaths, demographics, land use and air conditioning access across communities.

From July 12 to 15 in 1995, the heat index soared above 120 degrees, killing 739 people in the deadliest natural disaster in Illinois history. But the risk of death wasn’t the same for all residents — ...

The NWS added that the city of Chicago in particular will be "stifling" even at night, with heat indices remaining in the 90s ...