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Chicago Public Schools and hundreds of other Chicago area schools cancelled classes on Wednesday due to the cold, but that didn't stop the city from telling crossing guards to report for duty in record cold temperatures.
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Just over 2,000 ComEd customers were without power as of 4 p.m. Wednesday, and ComEd has already restored power to 55,000 customers who lost power overnight.
Two people were seriously injured in a furnace explosion at a metal smelting and refining facility Wednesday afternoon in the Goose Island neighborhood.
A Beverly mom and her son wanted to know: What would happen if you put a wet shirt outside for just over a minute in minus 20 degree temperatures?
Chicagoans have been startled by loud booms and cracking sounds, and they're not sure where the noise is coming from.
The South Shore Line will not be running any trains on Wednesday, due to electrical problems from the extreme cold.
As temperatures plunged to dangerous wind chills Tuesday night in Chicago, a man in a wheelchair pulled up to the doors of Pacific Garden Mission, a homeless shelter that was already filled well beyond capacity with people seeking comfort from the deadly elements of the night.
Damarion Mosley, a 14-year-old boy who had been missing from the Near West Side for more than two months, has been found safe.
Thousands of homes and businesses in northern Illinois were without power early Wednesday, as record cold has arrived in Chicago.
The Evanston City Council has approved a $1.25 million settlement with a black man who sued after police tackled and arrested him for stealing a car that turned out to be his own.
As the Chicago area experiences record-breaking low temperatures and dangerous wind chills, eye care is critical.
A man was spotted being rescued by the Chicago Fire Department while out on a break wall in Lake Michigan after walking across the ice during Wednesday's historic cold.
A fire was reported Wednesday afternoon on the 2500 block of South Sacramento in the Little Village neighborhood.
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