It was the great Chicago blizzard of 1967 he was talking about. Some 23 inches of snow fell in one 48-hour period, and when it was all done, the Chicago area was paralyzed. There were mountains of ...

The blizzard of 1967 buried Chicago under 23 inches of snow. Just 11 years later, another blizzard blanketed the city in almost a foot of snow. Just before the morning rush hour on Jan. 26 ...

Pedestrians fight the snow along Michigan Avenue in Chicago on Jan. 26, 1967. Commuters anxious to get home and avoid the approaching blizzard line up to get into the subway station at Grand ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Thursday marks the 50th anniversary of the 1967 blizzard, which dumped 23 inches of snow on the ground over two days. One man pushes a snowblower while two men pull with rope to ...

but it's probably still better than facing the historic blizzard that slammed Chicago 55 years ago today. On Jan. 26, 1967, snow started falling on Chicago, and didn't stop until more than a day ...

"It was a sight to see." Lucky to catch the bus Jim Sandrick, who lives in Robertsdale, was working in Chicago in 1967 and remembers getting on the first South Shore train to leave Chicago during ...

One man pushes a snowblower while two men pull with rope to clean the sidewalk after the blizzard of 1967 in Chicago — the biggest snowstorm on record in the city. The weather service theorizes ...

The January 1967 blizzard is regarded as the worst snowstorm on record in Chicago. A whopping 23 inches of snow fell from Jan. 26-27, breaking the previous snow record for the city of 19 inches on ...