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Saturday, the temperature hit 80 degrees in Chicago for the first time in over six months. After the long, particularly brutal winter we had...

Yay! The first day of spring. After such a long winter and so much snow, it's good to...what... WHAT IS THIS SHIT?!? To paraphrase Ster...

Last night, yet another snowstorm left a few inches of wet, heavy snow spraypainted over damn near everything.

A cute young woman wrote this on the bench at my train stop and took a picture of it to send to her brother in California. I hope he's s...

This Christmas tree still has not been carted off by city garbage crews--most likely because it's frozen into a snowbank.

I don't think any of these bikes will be moving again until it warms up again--so, maybe, July.

The snow piles along Richmond Street now reach up past my hips and, in some places, up to my chest.

More examples of "dibs," the dubious, embarrassing Chicago "tradition" of setting out random crap from around the house ...

In my (thankfully brief) travels yesterday, I only ran into one example of the dubious Chicago "tradition" known as "dibs...

I ventured outside for a few minutes yesterday--more to gather supplies to hunker down with than anything else--and found myself briefly on ...

For the second time in under a week, Chicago got hit with a snowstorm--more than 20" since the first of the year. And now? Temperatures...

OK, so this wasn't an all-out blizzard like, say, Snowmegeddon 2011 , but it is the most snow we've gotten at one time in nearly tw...