Jack in the Box, Inc. announce its official return to the Chicago metropolitan area with the grand opening of a new ...

The Illinois EPA declared an Air Pollution Action Day in the Chicago metro area. See today's air quality index forecast for Illinois.

The Chicago-Naperville-Elgin metropolitan area grew by 70,762 people — less than 1% — from July 1, 2023, to July 1, 2024. That was the ninth-largest numeric growth of any metropolitan area ...

The first time was on May 7, 2023, but that warning did not involve the Chicago metropolitan area. Friday's warning was the first dust storm warning that included the city itself.

Inflation in the Chicago area was up about 4.3% in January compared to a year before. That mark was the worst among the 23 metropolitan areas that WalletHub compared.

That's where another striking chart comes in from the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, which measures an even longer period. The metro grew from about 9.1 million to 9.5 million from ...

The Chicago metropolitan area is approaching a record-low unemployment level, according to federal survey data released by the Illinois Department of Employment Security. But at the same time ...

The WalletHub report said Chicago’s inflation metrics were more than four times greater than the numbers for Houston, Texas, which had the smallest inflation problem of the 23 metropolitan areas ...

The census also estimates that Illinois lost more than 230,000 people, or about 1.8%, in that time. Much of the reported decline — about 176,000 — came in the Chicago metropolitan area, which ...

Urbanization has had visible morphological effects on chipmunks and voles in the Chicago metro area. While both chipmunks and ...