Extreme heat is descending on Chicago again this week, and an agricultural phenomenon called corn sweat is making the heat ...

It’s the hottest time of the year in the United States and another heat dome is about to make millions of people feel every bit of it.

The National Weather Service has issued an Extreme Heat Watch for the entire Chicago area Wednesday and Thursday, when the heat index will feel like triple digits.

The process is officially known as evapotranspiration, which is how plants, including corn, release water vapor into the ...

After a spell of rain and cooler weather, high temperatures will roll across Chicago and the suburbs later this week.

Pleasant Monday with highs in the low 80s before a heat wave hits later this week. Get the latest seven day forecast from our ...

Almost 85 million Americans from South Dakota to Texas and North Carolina to Florida are already under extreme heat warnings, watches or advisories.

Chicago faces an extreme heat watch with temperatures expected to reach mid-90s and heat indexes up to 115 degrees.

July has already been more humid than average, and now another, less obvious factor will enhance humidity this week: corn sweat. Like a person breathing, corn exhales water vapor through its leaves — ...

New York, the country’s largest city, drew mainly from the Northeast, with Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Maryland making up the top five states sending new movers to the ...

Thirty years after a heat wave killed hundreds in Chicago, a sociologist explains how governments deflected blame after disasters then and now.

HOMEWOOD, Ill. (WLS) -- There was a special honor Thursday for a World War II veteran who died alone during Chicago's 1995 ...