snowstorm

Jim Paine has issued a statement on the snowplow plan.

#Hilarious! Thanks to Charlie, at least I'll have a smile when my face freezes as I'm shoveling my driveway on Sunday. #SnowIsComing

A baby boy made a dramatic entry into the world when he was born in a McDonald’s parking lot in Hales Corners, during a snowstorm.

It was only a week ago Wednesday that we Northern Illinois residents were flung headlong into the deep-freeze, with area temperatures dipping as low as -23 in places like Rochelle, while Rockford hit -19.

Most of those in our nation's capitol and throughout the eastern seaboard looked at the massive weekend snowstorm as (at best) an inconvenience to (worst case) a nightmare. As in most cases of extreme weather, there were those who loved every second of it...