Two women walk through a blizzard in Chicago on Jan. 12, 1979. Charles Osgood, Chicago Tribune Cars on North Mildred Avenue lie buried under the 18.8 inches of snow that fell on Jan. 12-13, 1979 ...

Chicago continues the battle against a huge snowstorm as a truck passes a car covered with snow from the great blizzard at Lawrence Avenue and Clark Street on Jan. 24, 1979.

CHICAGO (CBS) -- For all of the snow that has piled up here, Chicago has avoided "The Big One." Meaning one of those super-storms like the Blizzard of 1979. By many measures, the winter of 2013 ...

Whenever a big blizzard bears down on a city, journalists invoke the specter of Michael Bilandic, the Chicago mayor whose reign and reputation were allegedly ended by his disastrous response to ...

Chicago life slowed for two months when Acting Mayor Michael Bilandic responded ineffectively to the fable blizzard of January 1979. We asked Jane Byrne whether she would have won the February ...

You have to be about 40 years old to remember the blizzard of 1979, which took Chicago politics by storm. ... Blizzard lacks political punch of 1979. wls. By ABC7. Wednesday, February 2, 2011.

Chicago has enough manpower and resources to get the problem cleared up.” This letter appeared in the Tribune on Friday morning, Jan. 12, 1979. That’s the morning before the Blizzard of 1979.

A Midwest blizzard that delivered Chicago's heaviest snowstorm on record was wrapping up on this day in 1967, ... (21.6 inches), 2011 (21.2 inches) and 1979 (20.3 inches).