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Here’s a look back at the hottest temperatures on record in Chicago and how the Tribune reported them. Hottest day in Chicago history: 105 degrees (July 24, 1934) What the Tribune reported
The coldest temperature ever recorded in Chicago city limits is −27 °F (−33 °C) at O'Hare on January 20, 1985, [16] though unofficial temperatures as low as −3 °F (−19 °C) have been recorded at Chicago Aurora Airport in far western suburbs and in the rural areas to the west of Chicago. [41]
Skilling returned to the Chicago area and joined WGN-TV on August 13, 1978. [2] He was WGN-TV's chief meteorologist and was rumored to be the highest-paid local broadcast meteorologist in the United States. [5] He also had written the daily weather column for the Chicago Tribune. That feature, Ask Tom, ceased in August 2022 with a redesign of ...
The Chicago blizzard of 1967 struck northeast Illinois and northwest Indiana on January 26–27, 1967, with a record-setting 23 inches (58 cm) snow fall in Chicago and its suburbs before the storm abated the next morning. As of 2024, it remains the greatest snowfall in one storm in Chicago history. [1][2][3][4] As the blizzard was a surprise ...
The temperatures soared to record highs in July with the hottest weather occurring from July 12 to July 16. The high of 106 °F (41 °C) on July 13 was the second warmest July temperature (warmest being 110 °F (43 °C) set on July 23, 1934) since records began at Chicago Midway International Airport in 1928. Nighttime low temperatures were ...
The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.Founded in 1847, and formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" [2] [3] (the slogan from which its integrated WGN radio and television received their call letters), it remains the most-read daily newspaper in the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region.
The Chicago Tribune of June 14, 1876, discussed "Chicago as a Summer Resort" at length, proudly declaring that "the people of this city are enjoying cool breezes, refreshing rains, green fields, a grateful sun, and balmy air—winds from the north and east tempered by the coolness of the lake, and from the south and west, bearing to us frequent ...
In January 1858, the first masonry building in Chicago to be thus raised—a four-story, 70-foot-long (21 m), 750-ton (680 metric tons) brick structure situated at the north-east corner of Randolph Street and Dearborn Street—was lifted on two hundred jackscrews to its new grade, which was 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) higher than the old one, “without the slightest injury to the building.” [9 ...