2013: During an unusually warm stretch in late fall, it was a balmy 70 degrees. But by day’s end, six people were killed in ...

While cold and snow increasingly become the news, some prolific severe weather outbreaks, including tornadoes, can barge in ...

CHICAGO — Officials say a tornado swept through communities in suburban Chicago bringing winds of more than 135 mph to the heavily populated neighborhoods. The storm Sunday night damaged more than 200 ...

CHICAGO — Officials say a radar-confirmed tornado swept through suburban Chicago, damaging homes, toppling trees, knocking out power and causing some injuries. A report to the National Weather Service ...

COAL CITY, Ill. (WLS) -- It has been five months since tornadoes devastated several communities about an hour southwest of Chicago, and one family is moving home just in time for the holiday. Its path ...

Former WGN Chief Meteorologist Tom Skilling climbed a 100-foot tower at the National Weather Service office in Romeoville to ...

Nearly nine months after she and her husband, Frank, barely survived a massive tornado near Oklahoma City last May, Char Kozak of Schaumburg entered surgery for the fourth and final time in February.

Meteorologists in the Chicago area issued a special marine warning — ordinarily reserved for thunderstorms and warm-season waterspouts — for the spout-producing snow squall.