From the Archives: Blizzards of 1967, 2011
Take a glimpse into Lemont’s History courtesy of the Lemont Area Historical Society. Please feel free to add your related photos, too.
The Lemont Area Historical Society has generously offered to share photos and accompanying information with Patch readers each week, depicting people, places and things from the village’s storied past. Although we’ve had a brief dusting of snow and little sleet fell over the weekend, last Wednesday marked the 320th consecutive day without at least an inch of snowfall in the Chicago area, breaking the previous record of 319 days set in 1940. But on Jan. 26 and 27, 1967, it was quite a different story, when the National Weather Service recorded the area’s biggest snowstorm. Over those two days, 23 inches of the white stuff fell on Chicago and surrounding suburbs. John Quinn of the Lemont Historical Society said that although he was only 5…
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