Extreme cold warnings and cold advisories were in effect across the Chicago area Tuesday, already leading to hundreds of schools, offices, daycares and more closing due to dangerous wind chills as ...

A flash flood warning for most of the Chicago area was issued Friday afternoon as an unusually rainy January day creates a flooding risk in part due to frozen soil.

CHICAGO (CBS ... because the ground is so frozen that it can't absorb as much precipitation as it would in warmer times of the year. "Now that water is just rolling right off into the sewer ...

So were two other cars in front of it. A Chicago Water Management crew went out to spread salt in an effort to loosen some of the cars stuck in the ice. Wednesday morning, one woman managed to get ...