What we know about victims in Illinois dust storm. Police said 37 people at ages spanning from 2 years old to 80 years old were hospitalized with injuries ranging from minor to life-threatening ...

What To Do If You Ever Find Yourself Driving in a Dust Storm or Other Extreme Weather Six people were killed and more than 30 others were injured in the 72-vehicle pile-up on I-55 ...

Dust storms are not new occurrences in Illinois. The Dust Bowl storms of the 1930s quickly come to mind, but dust storms also occurred in the 1960s and 1970s.

At least six people were killed Monday when a dust storm caused a pileup involving as many as 90 vehicles on Interstate 55 in central Illinois, authorities said. Illinois State Police Maj. Ryan ...

[1/6] A view of vehicles in a dust storm, which cut visibility to near zero and triggered a series of chain-reaction crashes involving dozens of vehicles, on a highway in Springfield, Illinois, U ...

ILLINOIS DUST STORM RESPONSIBLE FOR ‘MULTIPLE FATALITIES’ AFTER CARS PILE UP IN WRECKAGE. Shirley Harper, an 88-year-old from Franklin, Wisconsin, was named as one of the people who perished, ...

P EORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — A sudden and intense dust storm swept across central Illinois on Friday, reducing visibility to near zero and creating extremely dangerous conditions for drivers.

An interstate highway in Illinois reopened Tuesday after a windstorm that kicked up clouds of blinding dust from farm fields and led to crashes that killed at least six people and injured dozens ...

As towering clouds of dust darkened Illinois skies once again recently, a chilling parallel to the 1930s Dust Bowl era loomed large over America’s heartland. Coupled with last year’s deadly 72 ...

Dust storms have become an increasing concern in Illinois, prompting investigations into their causes and potential solutions. These weather events have resulted in fatalities, including a 2023 ...

Although Taylor said dust storms are not new to Illinois — as his office has documented events back to the 80s — most of the storms don’t move across vast expanses of the state.