Dust Storms Return to the Midwest

Dust Storms Return to the Midwest

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Keep It Rural, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Like what you see? Join the mailing list for more rural news, thoughts, and analysis in your inbox each week. In mid-May of 2025, an enormous cloud filled the horizon outside of Bloomington, Illinois, menacing in both scope and color. Its rusty tint was akin to the orange skies of wildfire season in the American West, but this was no…