The traffic was just unbelievable.” - Carolyn Hallman in the Jan. From 4:45 until 7:25 I was draped over the cash box. “A good old 76 bus came along, and I just managed to get on it. In total, it took her more than four hours to get between work and home. And then, the bus stopped to help a car stuck in the snow so she walked the final five minutes to her residence. After waiting 1 hour and 30 minutes to find a bus, she was standing on it for 2 hours and 40 minutes. ![]() Carolyn Hallman, an office supervisor, tried to take the usual 35-minute bus trip from her workplace on Wacker Drive to her home. 26 as a result of the snow, staying there or at a nearby hotel for the night. Many commuters were stuck at their workplaces on Jan. Children enjoyed a great day because they were able to play with safety in the streets where motor traf(f)ic was impossible.” - Chicago Tribune, Jan. “Chicagoans accepted the snowfall with good humor, largely because temperatures remained in the high twenties. Hill, a purchasing agent for Montgomery Ward & Co., was lucky 15-year-old Melvin Guthrie - a Boy Scout - picked up and returned a brown envelope addressed to him that the teen found stuck in a snow bank because “inside were common stock certificates worth $3,000,” the Tribune reported. On a lighter note, the snow gave some who had harbored snowshoes or skis at home the opportunity to put them to use.Īnd in Winnetka, William V. When horses weren’t available, he walked three miles to Andersen’s home. ![]() He tried to get a taxi, but one couldn’t get near his home. Kelly couldn’t retrieve his car from his garage, though, since it was blocked by snow. Suffering from bronchial pneumonia, she desperately needed oxygen. Six-year-old Joan Andersen of Homewood was not as fortunate. ![]() The nearby, newly completed Shedd Aquarium opened its doors for the first time during the storm.Īn unlucky coyote, which wandered into the city seeking shelter from the storm, met its demise when a policeman responding to a woman’s call of “a mad dog” running in the street shot it. Roughly the same number of men were forced to spend the storm inside the Adler Planetarium when high waves made the causeway between it and the mainland impassable. Thirty-five students from Warren Township High School in Gurnee bound for their homes in Fox Lake and Lake Villa were hungry and scared, awaiting rescue in a farmhouse near Sand Lake when their bus became “snowbound in a gulley nearby,” according to the Tribune. Travelers on the roads were forced to seek refuge in farmhouses and barns on the outskirts of the city when their vehicles became marooned in ditches and drifts of snow. An estimated 5,000 men worked to clear ice and snow from the surface lines, which were hampered by hundreds of derailments - and caused some to suggest an underground system of rails would not suffer from the same delays due to weather.
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