While an air quality alert continues for parts of the Midwest due to smoke from Canadian wildfires, northeastern Illinois was expected to shift away from air quality issues that persisted over the last week,

CHICAGO - There is an Air Quality Alert for Northwest Indiana due to smoke still in the atmosphere. Fox 32 Meteorologist Kaitlin Cody has the forecast. Today will be comfortable with highs in the upper 70s and low 80s!

"The air quality is officially dangerous in Chicago," says Brian Urbaszewski, director of environmental health programs at the Respiratory Health Association. "It's going to send people to the emergency room.