I once spent a year in Chicago, and the weather there is like a continuing public entertainment event. None of this "partly cloudy in the morning, clearing later, highs in the 60s near the ocean and 80s inland" stuff. It was more like "lakeside snow in the morning, drought conditions out by O'Hare, locusts descending south of the Loop by nightfall, and Satan's minions riding their fiery steeds just after sunset from Evanston north."

Jon Carroll