Feb 18, 2015 ... Chicago Public Schools, some suburban schools closed Thursday because of  cold. Winter 2015 keeps Chicago on its toes. The year's first major winter storm  during Super Bowl weekend brought heavy snow and strong winds to the  Chicago area. Winter keeps rolling with snow and frigid air making repeat ...
Dec 19, 2016 ... Weather-related school closures are common across the country's largest public  districts, though some have canceled class vastly more often than others in the  past decade. Where I grew up in the Chicago suburbs, teeth-chattering  temperatures and back-breaking amounts of snow are practically inevitable ...
Feb 17, 2015 ... President Obama famously mocked the District's winter readiness in 2009 when  schools were canceled because of snow and ice. “As my children pointed out, in  Chicago, school is never canceled,” he said. Obama went on to say: “We're going  to have to apply some flinty Chicago toughness to this town.”.
Jan 30, 2014 ... Sometimes the anxiety is generational: "They never canceled school in my day,"  parents and grandparents complain when a new snow day gets announced.  Sometimes it's ... Urban areas like Chicago and New York have more resources  to clear snow and often need more to cause closings. Clarification: ...
Jan 8, 2015 ... For the second day, Chicago Public Schools are closed because of cold weather,  but not everyone agrees. ... Chicago Public School students will be returning to  the classroom tomorrow, after this week's bitterly cold days forced the district to  cancel classes. But, to some critics of the school closures, ...
In Chicago, school is never canceled because of winter weather.