According to the FOX Forecast Center, this winter storm could be the biggest snowstorm of the season so far for several Midwest cities, including Chicago and Detroit. The Plains and Northeast ...

(Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images) A series of winter storms swept across the United ... A person clears snow in Howard Beach, Queens, N.Y., on Sunday. (Theodore Parisienne/New York Daily News ...

NOTE: Special weather coverage of the winter storm begins at 4 a.m. Wednesday on NBC 5, the NBC 5 Chicago News Streaming channel and right here on NBCChicago.com and the NBC Chicago app.

Meteorologists are not yet sure how bad a brewing storm will be — some models signal a brewing blizzard in the Northeast.

Some of your options this weekend: craft beer sampling in Wellington, Chicago tribute band Solid Brass at Carlin Park, ...

Waves from the lake hit frozen walkways near Fullerton Beach on Wednesday. Zubaer Khan/Sun-Times Share Icy conditions could linger on Chicago area ... officials issued a winter weather advisory ...

CHICAGO, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- Chicago is bracing for its first major winter storm of the season as moderate to heavy snow blanketed the U.S. third largest metropolitan city Wednesday. More than 100 ...

Getty Images A powerful and deadly winter storm that has been slamming the Plains and Midwest Wednesday morning moved into Chicago, Detroit and the Great Lakes during the afternoon, making for ...

The sandy beach has volleyball courts ... that the beach and water can get very cold during the winter. For more information, visit the Chicago Park District website. Chicago River 90-Minute ...

As of 5 a.m. Wednesday, a light flurries were flying across Lake and Northern Cook Counties, NBC 5 Meteorologist Alicia Roman said, with salt trucks passing through local roads. But the main snow ...

A Winter Weather Advisory has been issued for the entire Chicago area, affecting Boone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Will, Grundy, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, LaSalle, Lake, and McHenry counties in Illinois, as ...

Monitors with an area bird tracking organization say that they've determined that a number of ducks have succumbed to bird flu​ along Lake Michigan.