Any ticks collected are sent to the state's public health department to be identified. The Will County Health Department ...

No reports of northern lights visible from Chicago-area skies had come in by Monday, according to Chicago Astronomer Joe ...

Rockford has been ranked at number 18 on U.S. News and World Report’s list of the “Best Places to Live in Illinois in 2025-26 ...

An Air Pollution Action Day was called Wednesday morning for the Chicago area and is in effect until midnight, weather ...

The Illinois EPA declared an Air Pollution Action Day in the Chicagoland area. Find out which counties are affected and what you should look out for.

Commencing June 20, when summer officially begins, "The heat is on!" says the Farmers' Almanac. The farmers foresee a "sultry ...

Residents in northern Illinois will experience degraded air quality today as rain brings Canadian wildfire smoke south. Find out the AQI in your area.

A new report from the National Weather Service concluded that a combination of drier soil, recent agricultural tilling, and ...

News 8 is continuing to follow storm damage reports and will provide more information as it becomes available.

At the height of the outages Tuesday night, more than 21,800 customers in Illinois were without electricity. As of 11:45 a.m. Wednesday, about 4,000 Illinois customers remained without power, ...

A radar-indicated tornado was spotted near East Moline at 7:24 p.m. CDT, moving northeast at 50 mph, as per the National ...

The U.S. National Weather Service in Illinois announced that their NOAA Weather Radios will be offline for maintenance from ...