I wasn't in Chicago then, but in St. Louis, and I wonder if we had a storm at the same time. I remember one of the local weathermen telling a story about how he had made a forecast of "partly cloudy". Within hours, St. Louis was hit by such a bad snowstorm that the weatherman wasn't able to leave the TV station to go home, and had to put up with viewers calling in to tell him about how much "partly cloudy" they were shoveling off their driveways.