In ten days, the city of Chicago would get more than 20 inches of snow during the blizzard of 1979. The year 1978 ended much as it had begun — under a blanket of white. A New Year’s Eve ...

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.

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 ...

Chicago has avoided "The Big One." Meaning one of those super-storms like the Blizzard of 1979. By many measures, the winter of 2013-2014 has been bad. Really, really bad. The snowstorm that ...

Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago) 1961 ... before the experiment was abandoned. 1979: The city was walloped by a massive blizzard that dumped 20.3 inches of snow.

Some other notable blizzards in Chicago history were January 12-14, 1979 blizzard with 19.3 inches of snow and the city’s biggest snowstorm, the January 26-27, 1967 “Big Snow” which produced ...

After the 1979 snowstorm, the fourth biggest in ... Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011 in Chicago. A winter blizzard of historic proportions wobbled an otherwise snow-tough Chicago, stranding hundreds ...

Two women walk through a blizzard in Chicago on Jan. 12, 1979. Cars are stuck in the roadway and covered with snow on Springfield Street at Augusta Blvd. after a major blizzard hit Chicago in ...

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 ...