CHICAGO (WLS) -- Air Quality Alerts remain in effect for the Chicago area Friday due to smoke from Canadian wildfires.

National Weather Service officials called an air quality alert in effect until midnight as well as a beach hazard warning.

"The air quality is officially dangerous in Chicago," says Brian Urbaszewski, director of environmental health programs at ...

Smoke has continued to cloud Illinois' air for a second straight day, but the poor air quality isn't because of a fire in the ...

Several wildfires burning across the northwestern Canadian provinces are again sending vast amounts of smoke into the upper Midwest and northeastern US, swamping the area with unhealthy air quality – ...

CHICAGO The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Illinois EPA) and the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) are ...