Chicago entered the purple zone on Tuesday with an air quality index of 228, which is considered “very unhealthy” and increases the risk of health impacts for everyone—but especially those belonging to sensitive groups, according to AirNow.
Dangerous levels of smoke from the Canadian wildfires are once again battering the United States, spanning throughout the Midwest and hitting Chicago the hardest.
The Windy City entered the purple zone on Tuesday with an air quality index of 228, which is considered “very unhealthy” and increases the risk of health impacts for everyone—but especially those belonging to sensitive groups, according to. Milwaukee also entered the zone with an index of 221, and multiple states such as Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Michigan are seeing “unhealthy” amounts of smoke blanketing their skies.
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