Snow seasons in Chicago are tracked from July through the following June. The area normally can expect 38.4 inches.
Chicago weather: How our 2024-25 seasonal snowfall compares with previous years
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Here’s when Chicago received its first snow of the fall season, going back more than 135 years
Snow has arrived in Chicago! And the first measurable snow of the 2024-2025 season was impressive.
Introducing the 2024 News-Sun Boys Soccer All-Area Team
Wauconda teammates Freddy Barnshaw and Sam Jurczyk are two of the players on the list.
Introducing the 2024 Post-Tribune Girls Soccer All-Area Team
Ava Haluska is one of three Crown Point players on the first team.
Chicago weather: What’s normal for fall’s first freeze and first snow? And when does it happen?
Chicago experiences higher temperatures longer than outlying suburbs due to the urban heat-island effect.
Round Lake’s Jorgie Morales, the 2024 News-Sun Boys Soccer Player of the Year, only ‘wanted to win’
Morales moved to defense to help Round Lake bounce back from a slow start and still scored 24 goals.
After scoring 83 goals, Hanover Central’s Kiara Desiderio is the 2024 Post-Tribune Girls Soccer Player of the Year
The Valparaiso University commit tied the single-season state record for goals.
Introducing the 2024 Naperville Sun Girls Volleyball All-Area Team
Naperville Central’s Makenna Devick is among the players on the team.
Column: Now in its third year, Christkindlmarket has found its Aurora home
No doubt you, too, have noticed the rush to Christmas. With Thanksgiving as late in November as possible, people are pushing into the yuletide holiday with a fervor like never before. Take, for example, the plethora of Christmas lights illuminating neighborhoods, even as autumn leaves continue to fall. Or, all the Santas and sleighs and snowmen sharing outdoor space with scarecrows and skeletons and sadly collapsing jack-o-lanterns. “Oh, I’m used to it,” a teen told me a couple weeks ago when I walked into a Yorkville school and saw a decorated tree in the foyer. “In my family we start […]
Advocates want more bird protections at Chicago quantum computing park
Groups want the highest level of bird protection measures including limits on light levels, more native landscaping and a sound study.