This December has been one of the warmer ones in recent Chicago history. High temperatures have been mainly in the 40s and there has been only three-tenths of an inch of snow recorded at O’Hare Airport, the official Chicago reporting station.
April ranked as the fourth-coldest on record in Chicago and second in Rockford. For both cities, it was the most bitter April since 1907.
A frigid air mass settled over much of the Midwest and Northeast, making for a bone-chilling start to the Major League Baseball season.
The cold and snow contributed to 28 games being postponed that month — an all-time high.