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Nicor warns to be prepared to pay up if you're planning on turning up that thermostat.

Of course, the answer to that question is obviously "too many." This sort of tragedy is completely avoidable, and should never, ever happen. Not even once.

It might feel great outside to you, but here's how to make sure it's safe for your dog. Summertime and the living is easy ... and hot. I'm that type of person where I get hot very easily, but my dog on the other hand could lay in the sun for hours on end just panting away...

Other than the fact that the water will be warm (not very appealing on a hot day), there's another reason to keep your water bottles in the shade.

There's no getting around it, or mincing words about it, either. It's hot, and it's gonna get a lot hotter before this heatwave breaks. Try some of these techniques to keep cool.

With temperatures riding in the low 90s and headed for triple digits by the end of the week, overheated Midwesterners have some thoughts to share.

As summer hit with a vengeance at the tail end of last week into the weekend, many people took their complaints with Mother Nature to social media.

With an excessive heat warning in effect for our area, you can't help but wonder...

It's another really, really hot day. If you're in serious need of a cool down, some nice people in the Rockford area are ready to help.

After the relatively cool summer we in the Rockford area just experienced, it seems somewhat odd that September would bring along with it a record-breaking heatwave. But it did, and we've got the numbers to prove it.