Smoke from Canadian wildfires has been drifting south of the border to the Midwest, creating unhealthy conditions in Chicago and Minneapolis, where air quality has been ranked among the world’s worst.
Air quality alerts issued on Thursday continued Friday in parts of Illinois, including Chicago, and in the entire state of Minnesota.
Chicago and Minneapolis’ air quality was in the “unhealthy” category, which ranks as level four of six on the Air Quality Index.
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Air quality in Chicago was ranked the worst in the world on Thursday, according to the website, IQAir. By Friday, Chicago was ranked second, while Minneapolis was third. Only Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo has worse air quality levels…