Chicago Blizzard

CHICAGO -- At the first sign of snow this winter, Robin Fine bolted out on a crucial errand she wishes she had taken care of last year – before ...

CHICAGO -- Chicago officials worked Friday to prevent a repeat of last year's "snowmageddon," when a blizzard left hundreds of drivers stranded along ...

With winter fast approaching, construction began Monday on new turnarounds offering an escape route for drivers on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive. The ...

If you thought winter in Chicago couldn't possibly get more intense than last year's blizzaster, get ready for this one: Long-range forecasters are ex...

The third largest blizzard on record in Chicago cost the city and sister agencies $37.3 million, according to estimates released Friday. Gov. Pat Q...

On December 21, 60-year-old Jeanne Pike was reported missing from her home in northern Illinois. For weeks, officers searched for Pike as heavy snow a...

The blizzard of costs to clean up Chicago's third-largest snowstorm is starting to pile up -- with $8 million in emergency contracts awarded in just o...

After a miserable, freezing, snowy few months, Chicagoans have busted out their sunglasses, running shoes and spring jackets--temperatures are above f...

We all get busy with our own lives. And once the Chicago winter rolls in and we're cooped up inside, you can go weeks, even months, without seeing the people who live next door.

Chicago's third heaviest snowfall in history shut down schools and businesses and stranded drivers... But there was a bigger crisis in many Mexican n...

Snowfall totals rank this week's blizzard as the third worst in history, but you can't begin to judge the storm's presumptive ferocity by a mere 1.8" ...

Chicago's Office of Emergency Management and Communications (OEMC) announced Saturday afternoon that the parking enforcement stoppage due to the blizz...

For the second evening in a row, a fleet of plows and trucks hit the side streets and alleys of Chicago's First Ward. "We got a First Ward company ...

It was pretty well impossible to get anywhere in Chicago yesterday. And Lake Shore Drive was still closed at 4:45 pm. (UPDATE - it re-opened this mo...

Snow days are great and all, but for people looking to get back to school, work or just out of their house after a massive snowstorm--it can be a seri...

A Chicago man was hospitalized early Friday after he was shot and robbed of his snowblower on the South Side. A 47-year-old man was in the 5600 bloc...

While the city has not made it public, the Department of Revenue has halted all parking enforcement until this coming Monday due to the blizzard and i...

Somebody finally said it. With the snowstorm gone and newsrooms looking for a story, much of the media's energy in the last 24 hours has been devoted...

Two days after a blizzard that dumped more than 20 inches of snow on Chicago, election officials said they will reopen early voting locations througho...

CHICAGO — As if being stranded in a blizzard for 12 hours on Lake Shore Drive isn't bad enough, many of those hundreds of unlucky motorists have...

CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Richard Daley says, overall, the city responded well to this week's blizzard and defended the decision to close the Lake...

While reports were still coming in Thursday morning, at least nine people appear to have died as a result of the massive blizzard that struck the Chic...

CHICAGO — Chicago emergency officials say they've reopened the city's Lake Shore Drive after a massive blizzard left the vital thoroughfare fill...

CHICAGO — Lindsey Wilson was on Lake Shore Drive, but she couldn't tell where. It was dark, and the snow swirling around the stranded bus made i...

It turns out, people in Chicago are more obsessed with the weather than politics. Pretty impressive. But, while most people spent their snow day diggi...