blizzard

Over the past few days, we've been treated to a lot of news about snow. First, the Rockford area got some long-overdue snow to (hopefully) wrap up the season. Then, over the last two days we've been bombarded with news about the blizzard on the east coast. But, how many of us remember the Big Snow, or the Chicago Blizzard of 1967?

The big snowstorm that rolled through northern Illinois this past weekend produced about a foot of snow for Rockford and the surrounding area. The drifts formed into three foot high frozen, back-breakingly heavy walls of snow. Chicago received almost twenty inches...