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The only library in Back of the Yards shares a space with a local high school. Some residents have advocated for a new freestanding library, securing $15 million in state funding to build it. But a new proposal would incorporate the library into a public housing project.
Plunging temperatures and a treacherous winter weather system is wreaking havoc across the United States with flight cancelations, power outages and subfreezing chills.
Thursday brought the first major winter blast of the season, a storm that crawled across the middle of the country, disrupting travel, upending holiday planning and shuttering much-loved holiday attractions including the city’s Christkindlmarket. But though forecasters had called for temperatures to plummet throughout the day into the single digits a 20 to 30 degree drop from morning no storm proved too daunting for some hearty Chicagoans.