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.
The National Weather Service has released the official snowfall amounts for areas affected Jan 18-19 snowstorm. Who gets bragging rights for the most snow?
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...