The National Weather Service has documented 92 “significant tornadoes” in the metropolitan area between 1855 and 2008. A 1967 storm, for instance, spawned at least five significant tornadoes ...

Chicago moves to build metropolitan-area network. feature. Nov 28, 2000 3 mins. Government IT Outsourcing Regulation. It may mean snaking optical fiber through sewer lines and old tunnels or ...

This Chicago metropolitan area, which includes Naperville and Elgin, saw nearly 300,000 people leave in just the last five years.

Chicago has more than 2.7 million residents and 10 million in the surrounding metro area, and is a leading city in technology, communications and transportation. The metropolitan region is a major ...

Taken together, it means that Chicago has a confounding set of demographic characteristics that set it apart among American metro areas: Between 2010 and 2016, the Chicago metro area grew only 0. ...

The Chicago metro area is among the nation’s 10 largest, and Census estimates found that none of the other nine lost population in 2017. That said, ...

Creep. Creep. Creep. This is the sound of a metropolitan area as it morphs ever outward. Listen closely, and you’ll also hear hammering, as in the building of houses. Whether these sounds amo… ...

Severe weather moved through the Chicago metropolitan area on Friday evening, August 16. The National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning for several counties in Illinois and Indiana.

Black people in the Chicago metropolitan area experienced the highest rate of police killings in the country from 2013 to 2017, according to a study published Wednesday by Harvard researchers.

Severe storms, including strong winds, heavy rain, and hail, hit the Chicago Metropolitan area on Wednesday afternoon and evening, March 19. The National Weather Service issued a series of watches ...

The median monthly rental price for the Chicago area stands at $2,389, a decrease of about 2% from September 2022, when that figure reached $2,437, according to a newly released report.

In an analysis of new American Community Survey data, William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution, examines the racial diversity of large metropolitan areas across the country. Data sh… ...