End of the week. Today, early and late we have precipitation sun and clouds mixing early. Cooler conditions along the lake with a High Temperature reaching the 80s in many areas. Yesterday bieber just below that. 63 today. 68 in chicago. 60 in valparaiso. 63 in joliet. We continue to see showers will linger all to the west as get into dew page and kane and kendall county. The line of showers and storms is there. They will move through early another chance of rain later generally after the sun goes down. 79 decreased by 5 00 p. M. High temperature will be 82. Thats a forecast. We have construction with a few projects right off the top of the hour, riverside water main work lining of the water mains that crossed under the river. Two big closures there from forced to park place the next on park place from greenland to woodside. This will last through the end of the month. It will cause some detours for people in that area. Belgianohare big mess near ohare when volume is really like not ca
What role should gregg play when it comes to oversight of College Athletics. Phone lines are open. Republicans call 2025853881. Democrats 2025853880. Independent 20258538882. Catch up with us on all of your favorite social media pages, on twitter, facebook or email us at journal cspan. Org. A very good saturday morning to you. A few headlines from that Senate Commerce Committee Hearing this past week. Here is the New York Times story on the Senate Presses ncaa signalling interest in the direction of College Sports. National journal has the headline, Congress Taking on escalating ncaa crisis. A Senate Committee grild the College Sports president over mistreatment of student athletes. We will show you bits of that hearing throughout the first 45 minutes of the washington journal. We will start from the Senate Commerce Committee Hearing, talking about why the committee is getting involved in this issue. There is a growing perception that college agethletics, particularly division 1 footba
Feel like 515. Windchill already an issue this morning. Advisory is in effect until 11 00 a. M. Current temperature is 0. 17 in aurora. 22 in rochelle. 30 in morris. Satellite remark composite, to not worry about the scope. Our chance of snow doesnt come until wednesday. We are down to eight degrees today. 9 00 p. M. Were three degrees. The high is only 10. Typical lotion in the upper teens. Tuesday we climb to 12. We of one stretch of road all closed due to an earlier fire. Blocked from northwest highway all way to central. Other than that, a quiet start. No major delays. A bit of work on the jane addams cancelled early this morning. He should get there without any issues. We are closing in on the record of most days with a low temperature below zero. Tonya francisco is live at the metra station in evanston. So far we have had 19 of these below zero days. Six more and would tie a record from 1885. That is a real concern for commuters, especially writers on metra whove been frustrated
Look like this. 3 in waukegan. 10 and bartlett. Readings at 2 degrees at the lakefront. 3 at ohare and 13 in kankakee. Its hard to even fathom that the typical low temperature is 17 degrees. Windchill is 23 for dekalb. 23 in aurora and 26 in rochelle. We are dry. A system coming out of the northwest will bring stow on saturday. One3 in. Tomorrow. Today, just sunshine. A full 20 degrees warmer. Tonight we go back down to zero. Tomorrow we get one3 in. Of snow. A High Temperature of 20. The first morning we are waking up without any incidents on the road. Enjoy this break will last. It is friday. Things can get harry quickly but right now we of these travel times across the board. And the construction will be slowing things down. More of its coming up. There was a fire in a high rise last night. This was on lake shore drive, near belmont. The fire started in the basement, and the smoke rose up through elevator shafts to the upper floors. Firefighters helped several people evacuate and pu
Normal for quite a long stretch manicotti today. High temperature is a few degrees below average. Snow showers are possible as a week cutpurses the moves through. Its currently 20 degrees. 19 at midway. 18 and garlic. 12 degrees for aurora. As a look around the region, we expect the potential for light snow coming in from the west. A week mature system. It will move through the region today and then we expect things to clear out. The east coast storm continues to pound the east coast. Four8 in. Of snow to new york city. We are 32 degrees today. 27 degrees by nine. High 33 snide debate down to 12 degrees. Decreasing clouds means increasing sunshine on friday. 22 again on saturday. A quick update on traffic. We have a road closures or about 83 the northwest highway gas of oil to central in place through the day. Not seeing any accidents up there. No delays. Its a very quiet start. Breaking news out of gary this morning, where several people were shot inside a club. Tonya francisco is liv