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Map shows city hit record amid "extreme" heat wave
Newsweek· 4 days agoThe small city is in West Virginia's northern panhandle region, roughly 60 miles southwest of Pittsburgh. Local charity groups were handing out water at...
Maps show "hot, hot heat" headed to Northeast U.S.
CBS News via Yahoo News· 6 days agoFor some areas, the temperatures will be so intense that "the longevity of dangerous heat forecasted ... has not been experienced in decades." A level...
Heat Wave Torturing the U.S. Will Get Worse in Some States
The Daily Beast· 17 hours agoWeather forecasts project temperatures as high as 108 degrees in Las Vegas and 104 in Phoenix, while...
Jon Stewart hitting the conventions
Politico· 2 days agoHe works for The Inland...Skyscrapers 1934-1986: How Technology, Politics, Finance, & Race Reshaped the City, will receive the Pattis Family Foundation...
Think cicadas are weird? Check out superfans, who eat the bugs, use them in art and even striptease
KHON 2 Honolulu· 6 days agoFOREST PARK, Illinois (AP) — Mayumi Barrack sees a pair of mating periodical cicadas getting...
How Illinois — ‘a racing family’ — stands apart from other states for Black trainers, drivers and...
Chicago Tribune· 4 days agoThe executive director of the Illinois Harness Horsemen’s Association believes the Juneteenth...
The highest and lowest natural elevation in each of the 50 states
List Wire via Yahoo News· 2 days agoPacific Ocean: Sea level. Idaho (USA TODAY) Borah Peak: 12,662 feet. Snake River: 710 feet. Illinois...
Garbage truck crash shuts down inbound lanes of Bishop Ford Fwy. in Calumet City, IDOT says
ABC 7 Chicago· 6 days agoLanes of the Bishop Ford Freeway were shut down on Monday after a garbage truck crashed, Illinois...
Why Route 66 is still the best way to see – and understand – America
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 1 day agoA life-sized statue of Marilyn Monroe stood outside the Polk-A-Dot Drive In in Braidwood, Illinois –...
Ribbon cutting celebrates improvements at HT Custer Park
WHBF Davenport via Yahoo News· 21 hours agoA ribbon cutting ceremony was held on Friday, June 21 to celebrate renovations and improvements to...