A Chicago Fire Department boat is seen outside the docks in between the Chicago River and Lake Michigan in Chicago, the United States, on Jan. 30, 2019. Chicago's record for the coldest temperature was shattered on Wednesday as the polar vortex struck the biggest city in the U.S. ...
However, Chicago has easily broken the Jan. 30 record low, which was -15° (Jan. 30, 1966). As of 7 a.m., it was -23° at O'Hare, the coldest it's been in Chicago in 34 years, and tied for 5th coldest temperature on record in Chicago. The all-time record cold mark for...
Sanyuktha Kumbla remembers what a real Chicago winter is like. Last year was one of the city's coldest on record, dramatically different than this Christmas. "Oh, it was so cold. It was freezing. You know I had icicles around my eyelashes. It was so cold I could barely walk but it...
Chicagoans greeted 2018 with the coldest New Year’s Day on record, with a high of 1 degree, and wind chills of -35 degrees. The frigid day was part of a cold snap that tied for the record of the longest periods of bone-chilling temperatures. Whether we struggled this month to keep ...
the negative range all day, with a high of about 12 below, which would be the coldest high temperature on record in Chicago. Overnight lows will reach as low as 23 below zero, only afew degrees higher than the coldest temperature ever in Chicago, when it was 27 below on Jan. 20, ...
The 1993 Cryptosporidium outbreak in Milwaukee, which sickened over 400,000 people, coincided with record flow in the Milwaukee River following heavy rainfall (Currerio et al., 2001). The Great Lakes are known to exert a considerable influence on regional climate that typically extends tens of ...
Every year, in the coldest depths of the winter, Chicago Theatre Week gives us a great reason to venture outside. The annual event runs from February 6 to 16, taking over stages throughout the city—from major regional hubs like the Goodman Theatre and Steppenwolf Theatre to intimate spaces...
I keep a very tight record on expenses and accounts receivable. There are two good reasons to do this. One; it’s how you run a business. Two; it’s how you should run a business. I could look at any year, but since 2014 is coming to a close, let’s take a look at our expe...
Pete Carroll might not be too happy about this one. A record114.4 million viewerswatched Super Bowl XLIX on NBC, featuring the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots. The dramatic game all but ended when Carroll called a pass play instead of a run near the goal line, and Seahawks quarter...
The same winter storm dumped heavy snow across the Plains and Midwest, ushering in some of the coldest air of the season. The cold was the biggest concern in the Dakotas. It was 11 degrees below zero F (minus 24 C) in Bismarck, North Dakota, on Friday morning, and forecasters warned ...