Environmental watch
What's in the air, water, and ground around here.
Live environmental OSINT for your community, pulled from public federal feeds — the EPA, the USGS, and the National Weather Service. No account, no tracking; every number links back to its public source. Auto-refreshes about every 30 minutes.
🌎 Environmental watch
Live public data for Chicago · updated 8 hr ago · showing last good readingAir quality
60ModerateUS AQI
PM2.5 10μg/m³PM10 10μg/m³Ozone 70μg/m³NO₂ 11μg/m³
Water monitoring
Chicago River At Columbus Drive At Chicago, Il · 1.3 km away
524 ft3/sStreamflow
-2.02 ftGage height
Active alerts
- SevereExtreme Heat Warning
Earthquakes · 30 days
✓ None ≥ M2.5 nearby
Sources: Open-Meteo Air Quality, USGS Water Services, National Weather Service, USGS Earthquake Catalog, EPA National Priorities List. All public, no personal data.
Air quality — full readout
US Air Quality Index 60 (Moderate). Observed Sep 3, 3:00 AM.
9.6 μg/m³PM2.5
10.0 μg/m³PM10
70.0 μg/m³Ozone
11.3 μg/m³NO₂
2.2 μg/m³SO₂
146.0 μg/m³CO
Source: Open-Meteo Air Quality ↗
Water monitoring — nearest site
Chicago River At Columbus Drive At Chicago, Il · 1.3 km away · 101 sites in range
524 ft3/sStreamflow · Oct 1, 5:59 AM
-2.02 ftGage height · Sep 3, 7:56 AM
Source: USGS Water Services ↗
Active weather alerts1
SevereExtreme Heat Warninguntil Sep 4, 12:00 AM
Extreme Heat Warning issued September 3 at 1:08AM CDT until September 3 at 7:00PM CDT by NWS Chicago IL
Northern Cook; Central Cook; Southern Cook
Source: National Weather Service ↗
Earthquakes — last 30 days0
✓ No earthquakes ≥ M2.5 within 250 km.
Source: USGS Earthquake Catalog ↗
Superfund sites
49 active EPA Superfund (National Priorities List) sites in IL of 56 ever listed.
Acme Steel Coke Plant
Chicago · NPL Site · 22 km away
The state’s energy ledger
What IL’s grid runs on, its EV fleet and charging network, and where its mandate stands — from the national Energy Ledger.
Open the IL energy dossier →Snapshot generated Sep 3, 8:25 AM (showing last good reading while refreshing). All data is public and carries no personal information.