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I'm 45 years old

Mom said I was born in that 79 one the blizzard of 79

It looks like to me 67 was a lot worse than 79

My Mom remember this she was a kid 10 years old

This is fascinating. I really love these old AM Radio clips. Thank you for posting.

I walked 4 blocks to school, school never closed. There was only 3 of us in class so after an hour they sent us home. I got my dad A frame ladder from the garage, blipped it in the front yard and jumped in the snow the rest of the day. Those were times when no bicycle needed be locked.

I remembered the 2011 Blizzard omg...

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Awesome music. So cool!

Great memories of this day! I lived in Dolton, IL and was 8 years old back then. The most snow Ive ever seen! Thank you so much for this awesome video!🙏I love to reminisce about the good old days! ❤🫠❤

Credit to the broadcaster! This man can get a message across

Excellent song + bassline! Lyrics too. And thanks for subscribing!

The comments from people from Da Region was phenomenal!

I always enjoy reading people's feedback/comments Re: such history and the time spent. You would have rocked it in film school. Grew up in Hammond, IN. This occurred before I was born.

Super awesome!

Awesome song. I dig it. 👍

one good thing about big snow ( and freezing cold temps) is the murder rate go down lol

Awesome album!

I was a kid in 67. The blizzard was fun. They dug tunnels in the snow so we could get out. We stayed home and played. But a few months later, the 67 tornado outbreak scared me terribly.

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Awesome music and video

I was there, we couldn't get out of our house, we had to dig a tunnel out the front door. Has anyone noticed that this was the same year as the massive Oak Lawn tornado outbreak and the tornado tragedy in Belvidere?

I'm not sure but I think this blizzard, and the tornado outbreak that same year, thats why my dad packed up and moved to Arizona. We had to dig tunnels in the snow to get out.

I loved listening to this and seeing the pictures! I grew up in Hazel Crest and recall this blizzard somewhat. We must have gotten out of school early that day (Pottawatomie School), and my neighbor/best friend was at our home because her mother, a teacher at Highlands Elementary, I believe, would typically get home a little later than we did. I remember looking out the front door at the accumulating snow and my mom getting off the phone with my friend's mom, who told her that some of the students couldn't get home because the snow was too deep for their parents to pick them up. So they were spending the night at the school. My friend and I thought it was a huge adventure, didn't really understand the seriousness of it at the time. I was 7, my friend was 8 at the time. My husband, a CZcamsr "Kent Oviatt: Vintage Tech," collects and repairs vintage and antique electronics, BTW! Check out his channel! Thanks again for this great blast from the past!

It brought back those memories of the Viet Nam war. I dated so many guys when they came back from over there. Almost married one. He was a helicopter gunner and he flew 36 hours under fire. I still think he should have gotten a medal for that. Long time ago.

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Stand by for NEEEEWS!!!!

Too bad they didn't have Lightfoot foot for a mayor at the time she'd clean up that blizzard 🤣

3:30 I well remember that horrible, discordant news sounder growing up in New York City. Being born in 1962 I remember many television shows being interrupted for one disaster or another.

I was there for the 1967 blizzard. In my local neighborhood I saw a baseball cap on top of a snowbank piled up against a local building. I picked it up and thought I saw the top of a head. I heard later that two of the local medicants (aka "bums") who hung out in that immediate area had died in the storm. Fact is, I do not know and will never know if there was a person there. I was a teenager at the time, and when you are that age, it is implicit in your mind that you have no authority to do anything. That means, if you see something, no, you don't attempt to report it to any authority.

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All the missing men wasn’t foul play back then, it was men leaving their wives for other women. I can imagine how easy it was to disappear and get out of a relationship then without cell phones and your significant other tracking your every movement. If a man leaves you cold turkey like that, he definitely wasn’t happy.

I may be the only person on the planet but I enjoyed the full seasons and miss snow and ice in the winter. Its practically over this year and I haven't even used my windshield scraper or snow shovel once. Winter in the Midwest now is nothing but dank chilly rain. Also people proudly walking around in shorts in January depresses me. Send me back! Not my world anymore.

We lived in hometown.Walked from there to jewel on Pulaski with our sled. There wasn't much food left. No cookies,bread,eggs,milk,etc. But at least we had power.

we dug out the cars on Warwick Ave to Pulaski. Also buried the cars of neighbors that refused to help. We walked down the middle of the expressway from Pulaski road to Addison. Could not believe all the abandoned cars, trucks and buses. What fun to be a kid that day! Luckily mom had a ton of groceries at home including hot chocolate with those little marshmallows Great memories, love the comments.

I'm born and raised in Chicago but after this sounds terrible I remember the blizzard if 78or79

Again, thanks for sharing.

I was stuck at Richards HS @ 106th & Central. I didn't drive yet, and didn't know my way home. I took to walking the RR track, hoping it would get me home, since I lived within sight of the tracks. (I think it was dry that morning but the school had no classroom windows, so we knew nothing until they announced that class was ending, and the busses weren't running).

I was on leave from the Air Force and had visited my grandparents in eastern Kentucky. I picked THAT day to drive from there to Chicago to my parents' house. I left Kentucky early in the morning, about 6:00 am. There was no snow, just cloudy. I headed west along Route 52. I had a 1959 Chevy but there was a short in the radio wiring and it kept going on and off so I just left the radio off most of the time as it was annoying. Route 52 went through Cincinnati then to Indianapolis. Near Lafayette I would get on to Route 41 due north. It was between Cincinnati and Indianapolis that snow started. I began listening to the radio and found out about the huge storm heading that way. Somewhere near Kentland it started getting treacherous. I stopped at a gas station and they were kind enough to let me pull into a bay and put on my tire chains (I'm from Chicago!). But I didn't get much further when Route 52 was closed, so I turned west and went into Illinois. I made it to the little town of Watseka, about 60 miles south of Chicago, and all roads were closed. I made it to a little motel and shared a room with two truck drivers who were stuck. One of them was driving a beer truck! Spent two nights at that motel when roads started opening. I started north that morning and made it within four blocks of my parents' house near Midway Airport when I got completely stuck on a side street. That took over 13 hours of driving. Got my car out two days later. A week later I left to go to the Middle East.

Wow! I lived in Chicago Heights in 1967. We lived off of Chicago Rd. We went over to a friends house to visit. When we went to leave, we couldn't move our car to get home so we stayed over night. The next morning, the snow was up to the gutters because of drifts. I remember walking home as plain as day 56 years later.

I was 3 during the Blizzard of 1967 and don't remember it but I certainly remember the 1979 blizzard and the one during the holidays 1983-4 where it got down to -60 wind chill. Yikes

Sounds like a good day to go strolling for a Subway sandwich at 2 in the morning. Oh shit, it's a couple of gay Nigerian MAGA supporters who I paid to be here! I could be in trouble...

Imagine asking someone nowadays to shovel out the fire hydrant it would never happen

Don't care about what these people think or do-- they made their bed---

I was 4 when the Blizard of 78 happened here in the Northeast (Southern NH) and I have no memory. But I love old newspaper and radio recordings about events like that.

Lived in Tacoma, Washington, in 1967. But we were very briefed on the blizzard Chicago. It was national news.

Thank you for this great Blast from the Past HeelerZ soundZ! I love reading all the memories and comments from the greatest snow event ever.

My sisters and I used to walk our dog, Friskie, down the long alley just a few steps from our home in Hyde Park. When we took him out during the blizzard, we almost couldn't find our way home. All of the little landmarks we knew had vanished under mountains of drifting snow. It turned out that we were walking on garage rooftops without realizing it - the snow was that deep!

I remember this snowstorm well. I lived in Calumet City on Wentworth Avenue and we walked to the Calumet Expressway with our sleds for free milk, eggs, and other food. Us kids were thrilled to be out of school. I was in 7th grade at Schrum Memorial. We loved playing in the snow. Only Corvairs, Renault Dauphin, and Volkswagen Beetles were seen on the roads.