BREAKING NEWS – Chicago, Illinois – The Chicago area continues to be under an air quality alert because of smoke from Canadian wildfires filling the skies.
Chicago’s air quality remains in the very unhealthy category, with people encouraged to limit their time outside, even healthy people with no respiratory problems.
Drifting smoke from the ongoing wildfires across Canada has created blankets of haze prompting the EPA to issue an air quality alert warning of potentially dangerous health effects.
“It is very unhealthy for residents in Chicago to go outside,” explained the EPA. “The lungs of the residents in the Windy City are not used to smoke from fires, even though they have built up an immunity from gunsmoke.”