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Chicago air quality hits 'very unhealthy' category as Canadian wildfire smoke infiltrates Midwest

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Canadian wildfire smoke is infiltrating the Midwest on Tuesday, and the air in Chicago has deteriorated to the Air Quality Index's "very unhealthy" category. Canadian wildfire smoke is infiltrating the Midwest on Tuesday and the air in Chicago has deteriorated to the Air Quality Index's "very unhealthy" category. The AQI in hazy Chicago reached 250 on Tuesday afternoon. Any number over 100 is considered unhealthy for sensitive groups. Haze obscures the Chicago skyline, June 27, 2023. Teresa Crawford/AP Children participate in a summer camp on Montrose Beach as buildings behind the shore are blanketed in haze from Canadian wildfires, June 27, 2023, in Chicago. Kiichiro Sato/AP MORE: Canada breaks record for annual wildfire smoke emissions: Copernicus Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson warned in a statement Tuesday, "We recommend children, teens, seniors, people with heart or lung disease, and individuals who are pregnant avoid strenuous activities and limit ...

As Ukraine war drags on, civilians' mental health needs rise

Huddled in the back of a café near the train station where a missile killed dozens of people nearly a year ago, Nastya takes slow, deliberate breaths to calm herself KRAMATORSK, Ukraine -- Huddled in the back of a café near the train station where a missile killed dozens of people a year ago, Nastya took slow, deliberate breaths to calm herself. Overnight, her neighborhood had been bombed again, and she just couldn’t take any more. Heeding her parents’ advice, the 20-year-old woman had visited the nearby psychiatric hospital that morning — a place that also bore the scars of war after being repeatedly bombed, including by a missile that destroyed part of the building last September. But the staff swept up the shattered glass, shoveled away the debris and carried on working, determined to stay in Kramatorsk, in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, to help those in need. For Nastya, it was a lifeline. "After today’s shelling, I could no longer cope with anxiety, the feeling of constant ...