Imagine kicking off the new year buried in over a foot of wind-driven snow. That was the case in the Midwest in 1999.

Arizona once had to dig out of 100 inches of snow. It paralyzed Flagstaff and buried the White Mountains in almost 9 feet of ...

1900: The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal (a project long championed by the Tribune) was completed, reversing the flow of the ...

Mild but cold weather will kick off the new year in Chicago, with mostly cloudy skies, freezing temperatures and a chance of ...

Happy New Year! It will be cold to start out 2026, but some warmer weather is in the near future. Some snow is still in the ...

From snow to bitter cold wind chills, the New Year's Eve forecast will look dramatically different from the last holiday ...

On November 3, 2025, Chicago faced its first Winter Storm Warning in seven years, with heavy lake-effect snow up to three ...

Winter settles over Downtown Alton in a 1950 street scene ...

Separatists in southern Yemen accused Saudi Arabia on Friday of targeting their forces with airstrikes, something not immediately acknowledged by the kingdom ...

A powerful polar vortex hit the U.S. Midwest in mid-December 2025, right during NFL Week 15 games. Temperatures dropped to ...

I started writing stories about my childhood about three years ago, and one of the first described the joy of sledding down ...

The state of Missouri is losing its third NFL franchise and the second in the past decade, with the Kansas City Chiefs set to ...