Climate change in Chicago, Illinois
Climate change is affecting locations like Chicago in a variety of ways. In summer, these impacts include more mosquito days, greater health risks from humid heat, and hotter summers.
Explore these pages to learn how people in Chicago are at risk in a warming world.
Chicago's climate threats in include:
Explore some ways climate change is affecting Chicago in summer
More mosquito days
Mosquitoes thrive in warm and humid conditions that are becoming more frequent
More dangerous heat
Climate change is driving hotter, longer, and more frequent extreme heat.
Hotter summers
Hotter summers bring more dangerous heat, higher energy bills, and worse wildfire.
Changes in severe storms
Certain conditions favorable to thunderstorms and tornadoes are occurring more often
More graphics about Chicago and climate change
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