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| This photo shows Old Wolf Road at about 207th in Mokena. Submitted by Nancy Osbourne |
The Chicago area finally got its first snowfall of the season on Sunday.
And Mother Nature held nothing back, leaving more than 8 inches of snow for some towns and going down in the record books as the largest first snowfall of the season for Chicago. The 6.1 inches of snow recorded at O’Hare Airport on Sunday beat the previous first snowfall record of 4.6 inches set back in 1964, according to the National Weather Service.
Record First Snow of Season and a Look Ahead to This Week's Weather Forecast
As for the Chicago-area town with the highest recorded snowfall for Sunday, those honors go to Romeoville where residents are digging out from 8.1 inches of snow.
How did other towns fare during the first snowfall? Here is a rundown of how many inches fell in several Chicago-area towns:
Romeoville (Will): 8.1 inches
Joliet (Will): 7.5
Geneva (Kane): 7.4
Plainfield (Will): 7.2
Elburn (Kane): 7.0
North Aurora (Kane): 7.0
Elgin (Kane): 7.0
Downers Grove (Du Page): 6.9
Buffalo Grove (Lake); 6.9
Elk Grove Village (Cook): 6.8
Westmont (Du Page):.6.5
New Lenox (Will): 6.4
Batavia (Kane): 6.3
Riverwoods (Lake): 6.3
Manhattan (Will): 6.3
Woodstock (McHenry): 6.3
Homewood (Cook): 6.1
Aurora (Kane): 6.0
Harvard (McHenry): 6
Oak Lawn (Cook): 6
Chicago Ridge (Cook: 6
Park Forest (Cook): 6
Sugar Grove (Kane): 6
Lockport (Will): 6
Lake Zurich (Lake): 6
Wonder Lake (McHenry): 5.9
Countryside (Cook): 5.8
Mundelein (Lake): 5.8
Cary (McHenry): 5.6
Elmhurst (DuPage): 5.5
Gurnee (Lake): 5.5
Lakemoor (Lake): 5.5
Midway Coop (Cook): 5.5
St. Charles (Kane): 5.4
La Grange Park (Cook): 5.3
Highwood (Lake): 5.2
Oak Park (Cook): 5
Algonquin (McHenry): 5
Beach Park (Lake): 4.2
Hebron (McHenry): 4.1
Palatine (Cook): 4
Lincolnwood (Cook): 2.6
Waukegan (Lake): 2.1
Joliet (Will): 7.5
Geneva (Kane): 7.4
Plainfield (Will): 7.2
Elburn (Kane): 7.0
North Aurora (Kane): 7.0
Elgin (Kane): 7.0
Downers Grove (Du Page): 6.9
Buffalo Grove (Lake); 6.9
Elk Grove Village (Cook): 6.8
Westmont (Du Page):.6.5
New Lenox (Will): 6.4
Batavia (Kane): 6.3
Riverwoods (Lake): 6.3
Manhattan (Will): 6.3
Woodstock (McHenry): 6.3
Homewood (Cook): 6.1
Aurora (Kane): 6.0
Harvard (McHenry): 6
Oak Lawn (Cook): 6
Chicago Ridge (Cook: 6
Park Forest (Cook): 6
Sugar Grove (Kane): 6
Lockport (Will): 6
Lake Zurich (Lake): 6
Wonder Lake (McHenry): 5.9
Countryside (Cook): 5.8
Mundelein (Lake): 5.8
Cary (McHenry): 5.6
Elmhurst (DuPage): 5.5
Gurnee (Lake): 5.5
Lakemoor (Lake): 5.5
Midway Coop (Cook): 5.5
St. Charles (Kane): 5.4
La Grange Park (Cook): 5.3
Highwood (Lake): 5.2
Oak Park (Cook): 5
Algonquin (McHenry): 5
Beach Park (Lake): 4.2
Hebron (McHenry): 4.1
Palatine (Cook): 4
Lincolnwood (Cook): 2.6
Waukegan (Lake): 2.1
In Memory of the Crib Fire - Mount Greenwood Cemetery
Back in the old days before worker safety laws and building codes.
Submitted by Rick Smith on February 2, 2015 - 8:50pm. |
They were paid $1 to $2 a week for their labor. The workers were housed in a wooden crib on the lake. For unknown reasons a fire broke out.
It was rumored that someone had sprinkled gasoline to ward off bedbugs, but no official cause was ever confirmed. The fire quickly consumed the wooden dormitory that housed the tunnel workers. Left with little choice men began to jump into the freezing lake and climb onto ice floes.
One man was able to make a frantic telephone call to the offshore office, relaying the message “The Crib is on fire! For God’s sake send help at once or we will be burned alive. The tug—” and then the line went dead.
Accounts vary, with estimates between 40-70 men dying from the fire and drowning. The exact number is uncertain, because many of the workers were day laborers and migrant workers. Little information about their identities remains. Some of the bodies were never recovered.
Some that were found, were buried at Mount Greenwood Cemetery where a plaque reads, “In Memory of Crib Fire, 45 unknown men, Jan. 20, 1909.”
Labor History in 2:00 brought to you by the Illinois Labor History Society and The Rick Smith Show
It was rumored that someone had sprinkled gasoline to ward off bedbugs, but no official cause was ever confirmed. The fire quickly consumed the wooden dormitory that housed the tunnel workers. Left with little choice men began to jump into the freezing lake and climb onto ice floes.
One man was able to make a frantic telephone call to the offshore office, relaying the message “The Crib is on fire! For God’s sake send help at once or we will be burned alive. The tug—” and then the line went dead.
Accounts vary, with estimates between 40-70 men dying from the fire and drowning. The exact number is uncertain, because many of the workers were day laborers and migrant workers. Little information about their identities remains. Some of the bodies were never recovered.
Some that were found, were buried at Mount Greenwood Cemetery where a plaque reads, “In Memory of Crib Fire, 45 unknown men, Jan. 20, 1909.”
Labor History in 2:00 brought to you by the Illinois Labor History Society and The Rick Smith Show
Green Energy is Now Competitive with Fossil Fuels
The chart above shows the costs to generate energy. Geothermal energy is the most cost effective, followed by Wind and Natural Gas.
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Good News For the Environment and the Economy
Wind and Solar Are Crushing Fossil Fuels
Record clean energy investment outpaces gas and coal 2 to 1.
by Wind and solar have grown seemingly unstoppable.
While two years of crashing prices for oil, natural gas, and coal triggered dramatic downsizing in those industries, renewables have been thriving. Clean energy investment broke new records in 2015 and is now seeing twice as much global funding as fossil fuels.
One reason is that renewable energy is becoming ever cheaper to produce. Recent solar and wind auctions in Mexico and Morocco ended with winning bids from companies that promised to produce electricity at the cheapest rate, from any source, anywhere in the world, said Michael Liebreich, chairman of the advisory board for Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF).
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