The 24-Million-Ton Snow Job
Chicagoans knew that the balmy 65° weather could hardly lastit was, after all, the warmest Jan. 24 on record but they little dreamed how startling the change would be. Within two days, the temperature plummeted to the 20s, snow came cascading down, and icy winds gusted through the streets. Though no stranger to wintry storms, Chicago found itself in the brief space of 24 hours paralyzed by the worst blizzard in its historya raging storm that tore through large sections of the Midwest and caused at least 75...
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