Cicada 2024 Chicago Weather. It’s lasting weeks longer than the other. 2024 is a big year for periodical cicadas in illinois, where broods xiii and xix will be emerging throughout much of the state at the same time.
An estimated 50,000 to 1.5 million cicadas per acre will emerge after spending several years underground. The emergence of trillions of cicadas across the midwest and southeast is already pretty rare because two broods are coming out at the same time, but there’s another curiosity showing up among.