
Tuesday was one of those days on the streets of Chicago. Hat, gloves, scarf and industrial winter coat required. Scrape your front windshield; scrape your rear windshield; pray to the higher power of your choosing your battery hasn't died.
The temperature at O'Hare International Airport, WGN-TV would report later, never crossed 26 degrees—an uncharacteristically low number for the first week of December. The conditions should've deterred reasonable people from waiting in line for anything. But Bears fans in 2025 are not reasonable people.