Photos: These vintage photos prove that the Windy City has seen its fair share of chilly days.
Commuters standing on an elevated platform at Pulaski Road meet the cold as icy Arctic air sent Chicago area temperatures down to 1 below zero in January 1982.Judy Grego, from left, Emily Harris, a young woman whose shivering prevented her from giving the photographer her name, and Betty Joe Braze wait for the evening bus on a cold and windy Michigan Avenue on Jan. 9, 1962.
23, 1950, after firemen fought a $50,000 blaze which drove 25 people from their homes in the zero degree coldPoliceman William Jorgenson directs traffic at LaSalle Street and Wacker Drive in sub-zero temperatures on Jan. 7, 1942.The bitterly cold weather caused rapid condensation of the steam that rolled, with smoke, from this New York Central locomotive as it passed 18th Street near Clark Street, as it left Chicago on Jan. 21, 1947.
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