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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Brett Chase

Better breathing now, but more bad air days likely for Chicago due to climate change

Smoke from climate-related Canadian forest fires envelopes Chicago on June 27. (Owen Ziliak / Sun-Times)

Breathing in Chicago isn’t as easy as it used to be. And it’s not going to get any better.

Just two days in a recent monthlong period saw the air in and around the city deemed “good.” For several days, the air was so bad — the worst in the world — that people were warned to stay inside for fear that the particulates in the air could make them sick or even put some at a higher risk of dying.

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