| Historical Events: One of the worst winter storms to impact the State was on January 26-27, 1967, when as much as 23 inches of snow fell on the Chicago area. Travel throughout northern Illinois was curtailed and areas to the south experienced a glaze of ice which made travel virtually impossible until January 29. Fifty deaths were directly attributed to this storm.
In 1979, a Federal snow emergency was declared when the northern third of the State received 6 inches or more of snowfall between January 12 and 14. The heaviest snowfall, between 12 and 20 inches, was recorded in the northeast quarter of the State, where traffic was paralyzed and transportation corridors closed.
Reports on smaller recent winter storms are summarized in the table below.
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