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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Mohammad Samra

Temperatures rise — barely — after Chicago’s coldest December day in nearly 40 years

A commuter places her hands in her pocket while wearing a mask as she walks from the bus stop on Roosevelt Road in the West Loop, Friday, Dec. 23, 2022. Forecasters said it was the coldest December day on record in Chicago since 1983. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

After Chicago weathered its coldest December day in nearly 40 years, temperatures started bumping up ever so slightly heading into Christmas — not that it feels much less frightful.

The mercury topped out at minus 1 on Friday, the most frigid December temperature felt in the city since 1983, according to the National Weather Service.

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