Last year, Laura Stamp asked her eighth-grade students a thought-provoking question: If they could redesign their city, how would they make it more sustainable? Stamp, who teaches science at Brooks ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between WBEZ and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. Illinois home insurance premiums are going up, and climate change-powered ...

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For a fleeting moment, as his hand cradled a hailstone just shy of 5 inches, Victor Gensini thought he had found a new record-breaker for the state of Illinois, surpassing a 4.75-inch stone found near ...

Illinois is lagging on battery storage—projects that collect solar and wind energy to use when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing. But major energy legislation that the state’s General ...

Illinois residents should prepare for a chilly holiday season with a chance of flurries, thanks in part to La Niña. Experts forecast a wetter-than-normal winter season throughout the state, with ...

Temperatures are expected to dip again this weekend as thunderstorms move through Illinois, bringing another end to the brief spell of sunshine and 70s. This serves as a reminder that even in early ...

Across Illinois, people are making hard decisions about what they can afford and what they cannot. A public works director weighs whether to repave a street or replace a storm drain after another ...

A couple in Northwest Indiana is dead after a tornado leveled their home this week. Potentially record-sized hail pummeled Kankakee south of Chicago. Here’s what you need to know about this extreme ...