MCHENRY COUNTY, IL – McHenry County is under an Air Quality Alert through Friday night, July 17, as wildfire smoke is expected to cause unhealthy to very unhealthy air quality conditions. The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency has designated today a Purple Forecast Air Pollution Action Day. Air quality is expected to remain unhealthy on Friday, which […]
Woodstock residents were among more than 80 million people from the Midwest to the East Coast who were affected by air quality alerts last week as smoke from Canadian wildfires invaded parts of the U.S. Northern Illinois was covered by what the U.S. Air Quality Index called a “very unhealthy” air quality that led health […]
Staff Report news@thewoodstockindependent.com Smoke from wildfires in Canada has prompted an Air Quality Alert for McHenry County in effect today and Wednesday. As of noon Tuesday, the U.S. Air Quality Index rated McHenry County’s air as “very unhealthy.” The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency has issued an Air Quality Alert for most of Illinois. According to […]
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