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As it does
every year, Old Man Winter has come and tightened his grip on the Chicagoland,
and Arlington Heights, area. To celebrate, we thought this blog post should
take a trip down memory lane and look at winter storms of the past. We say celebrate
because after looking at the photographs below, we are celebrating that things
could, and have been, worse for the residents of Arlington Heights. To find
some good photos, we dug through the Museum’s collections for photographs of such
storms and they are below.
This newspaper
clipping is from 1936. There was no other information about the photograph, but
just looking at this picture makes me shiver thinking about traveling snow
covered roads without snowplows. 
In 1965, these youngsters were able to make the best of ice covered sidewalks and a loss of electricity in the homes of many residents.
The blizzard
of 1967 is one that many people still remember vividly, and for good reason. Chicago’s
all‑time record snowfall of 23.0 inches was established. The snow
began on a Thursday morning and didn't let up until the next day. The city of
Chicago, including O’Hare Airport,
was shut down for several days. An estimated 20,000 cars and 500 buses were
stranded on roads everywhere, hampering snow removal efforts.
The winters
of 1976-1979 were three of the worst on record for Chicagoland, with 1979
culminating in 89.7 inches of snow that fell is the all‑time
season record. One of Chicago's worst blizzards occurred in January 1979. The
storm total was 18.8 inches of snow. Roofs collapsed from the weight of the
snow, people fought over parking spaces,
snow was as high as street signs.
There have been plenty of storms since this one that probably also deserve mentioning, but we’ll save those stories for the next wave of snow.
Until then, check out the museum’s website & calendar for opportunities to stay warm with us, while you learn a little about Arlington Heights.
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