A massive dust storm was racing toward Chicago and the rest of northern Illinois, putting motorists and people with respiratory illnesses at risk, weather officials warned Friday evening.

The Chicago area was bracing for another round of severe storms Friday — less than 24 hours after powerful storms ripped across the region.

A dust storm loomed over a residential suburb in the U.S. Midwestern state of Illinois on Friday (May 16), as authorities warned of a fast-moving wall of dust that engulfed northern Illinois and parts of neighboring Indiana and Chicago.