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Originally Posted by Handro
One thing you'll notice about Chicagoans: we never get sick of talking about the weather.
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true.
and as a 4 season bike commuter in chicago, that applies 4-fold for me.
weather is everything when you're out in it everyday for 8 miles every morning and then again every afternoon.
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Originally Posted by Handro
Yes, much of the city was closed down for the couple days this past January that it got that cold (schools, universities, private businesses, etc.)
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not all of them. my office was open through all of the recent polar vortex non-sense.
in fact, in the nearly two decades that i've been working here, there has only been one single day where my office was closed due to weather, and that was back in the big groundhog day blizzard of 2011.