plunging more than 400,000 utility customers into darkness as thunderstorms with hurricane-force wind gusts and tennis ball-sized hail wreaked havoc in parts of the Midwest. More than 100 damage ...

Life-threatening heat spread across the eastern half of the U.S. this week, first hitting the Midwest, then the Northeast ... The final tennis major of the year, the U.S. Open, which is underway ...

At the Midwest Badminton Club in Woodridge, the 2024 semi finals and finals of the Chicago Open were in full swing on this ...

A record-setting heat blast that swept across the Midwest this week has been made worse by the region's vast fields of cornstalks. Through a natural process commonly called "corn sweat," water ...

About 75 million people from the Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic coast are under heat alerts as abnormally high temperatures blast the eastern United States. The heat is sprawled over the region as ...

FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, Ill. — Fairview Heights police are investigating after a large fight shut down the Midwest WingFest early on Saturday night. According to organizers, Midwest WingFest in ...

“Corn sweat” is when corn plants release moisture into the air to stay cool, collectively providing the American Midwest a substantial surge in humidity every summer. It’s a process called ...

MSA Professional Services Inc., a Baraboo, Wis., consultant with offices also in Minnesota, Illinois and Iowa, has elevated Nick Wagner to CEO, effective on Jan. 1. Now senior vice president of ...

A heat dome is bringing high temperatures to much of the Midwest this week and they’re being worsened by humidity that is, at least in part, caused by moisture being released from crops—or ...

The president of the USTA called the sound of pickleball play "obnoxious." He said its encroachment on tennis courts is concerning. The USTA is seeding a new game called Red Ball Tennis to ...

D.C. may hit a new record-high temperature on Wednesday. Extreme heat is gripping the Midwest before moving into the Northeast. Chicago is in the center of an excessive heat warning that stretches ...