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While 1 inch of snow was measured at O'Hare Airport, up to 9 inches was dropped in the Rockford area and around 6 inches fell in McHenry and Lake counties on Friday.

The monthly average temperature is predicted to be 39.2 degrees, barely above the record 39-degree average set in February 1882.

Good morning, Chicago. In the Chicago Public Schools Office of Inspector General’s annual report released Tuesday, the district watchdog urged CPS to adopt new training protocols for volunteers and vendors as part of its ongoing efforts to address adult-on-student sexual misconduct. And, in light of investigations revealing the district potentially lost as many as 125,000 technology devices, ...

Heat pouring out of southwest expected by midweek, developing thunderstorms may help keep worst heat down, according to the National Weather Service's Romeoville offices.

“A few tenths of an inch to a half an inch of snow” could fall in the city early Monday, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Mark Ratzer.

With the threat of a major winter storm hanging over Chicago ahead of the Christmas holiday weekend, government officials warned residents to hunker down and stay safe.

Teen Volunteers in Action (TVIA) SD-1 Chapter honored 31 high school seniors from seven local area high schools at its annual Senior Send Off event held Sunday, May 1, at Canyon Crest Academy.

The frigid temperatures are then expected to jump to the low-30s on Tuesday before forecasters call for relatively balmy highs near 40 degrees on both Wednesday and Thursday.

Heading into stormy, sometimes dangerous weather it is best everyone is prepared.

Severe weather ‘off to an unusually slow start’ in the Chicago area, but this is the time of year when flash flooding and tornadoes can ramp up quickly Morgan Greene, Chicago Tribune © Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune Randy Bernal, 12, shoots a basketball in Chicagos Horner Park with his dad, Nicolas Bernal, and brother, Brian, on April 11, 2021. If it seems like Chicago’s spring weather is off to a calm start, that’s because it is — zero days of severe weather have s...