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List of school closings: More than 100 Chicago-area schools closed due to dangerous cold
More than 100 schools, colleges and daycares across Northeastern Illinois have announced closures or shifts to e-learning Tuesday as dangerously cold wind chills as low as -30 sweep across the Chicago area.
The closures range from the city to the suburbs, including elementary, middle and high schools in Palos Hills, Oak Lawn, Lyons, Calumet City, Crystal Lake, Elgin, Carpentersville, Antioch and Grayslake.
According to Chicago Public Schools 2024-25 calendar, CPS students had an already scheduled day off Tuesday for “Teacher Institute Day.”
Multiple private schools and daycares were also closed, the Emergency Closing Center reported. The latest list of closures can be found here (NOTE: If you are accessing this link from our app, please go to your mobile browser).
The cold also forced Amtrak to cancel some trains lines in and out of Chicago, including The Wolverine, The Borealis and the Hiawatha, and led to more than 40 cancellations at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.
NBC 5 reporter Lisa Chavarria early Tuesday said inside the airport, it didn’t feel much warmer.
“Employees even have their coats, hats and gloves on,” Chavarria said. “With it being -7 here, it’s frigid inside.”
As of 5:20 a.m., temperatures across Northeastern Illinois were below zero, the NBC 5 Storm Team said, with readings ranging from -5 to -10 degrees. Wind chills were even colder, NBC 5 Meteorologist Alicia Roman said, with “feels-like” temperatures of -29 in DeKalb, -27 in DuPage and Morris, -24 in Waukegan and -20 in Kankakee.
“Bundle up from head to toe” NBC 5 Meteorologist Alicia Roman said early Tuesday morning. “The Arctic cold will peak this morning….We are in the heart of the brutal cold right now.”
An arctic air mass combined with blustery winds will result in dangerous wind chills as low as -20F to -35F this morning. Cold conditions will then continue into Wednesday morning with wind chills in around -10F to -20F expected. #ILwx #INwx pic.twitter.com/uviXcu5aTR
— NWS Chicago (@NWSChicago) January 21, 2025
According to the National Weather Service, an extreme cold warning was in effect until 12 p.m. for Lake, McHenry, DeKalb, Kane and LaSalle Counties in Illinois, and Kenosha County in Wisconsin. In those parts, dangerously cold wind chills around 30 degrees below zero “could cause frostbite on exposed skin in as little as 10 minutes.”
In DuPage, Cook, Kendall, Grundy, Will and Kankakee Counties in Illinois and across parts of Northwest Indiana, a cold weather advisory was in effect until 2 p.m., the NWS said.
“The coldest wind chills are expected through this morning,” the NWS said. “Winds chills down between -20°F to -35°F can be expected area wide under this arctic air mass. If you must go out: cover all exposed skin as frostbite can occur in under 20-30 minutes.”
Tuesday’s high temperature in the afternoon will be in the single digits for most areas, Roman said, with wind chills easing up slightly, between -10 and -20. Some relief was on the way Wednesday, with highs in the 20s, Roman said.
“A high of 25 will feel a lot warmer than the -25 we are feeling right now,” Roman said, of Wednesday’s conditions.
Wednesday could also see chances for scattered snow showers “at any point of the day,” Roman said, though totals aren’t expected to be more than an inch
By the weekend, temperatures will be above-average, Roman said, climbing into the 30s.
Tennessee football will play Illinois in the Music City Bowl. It will be a 5:30 p.m. ET kickoff on Dec. 30 at Nissan Stadium in Nashville.
Nissan Stadium holds roughly 69,143 people, so there are plenty of tickets available.
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Tennessee vs Illinois in the Music City Bowl
Ticket prices for the Tennessee vs Illinois start at $68 on VividSeats and $77 on StubHub. Prices in the lower bowl range from $68 to $488 on both sites.
To see a full list of ticket prices, visit StubHub.
When does Tennessee play Illinois in the Music City Bowl?
Tennessee will play Illinois on Dec. 30 at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee.
Tennessee vs Illinois score predictions
Tennessee 35, Illinois 28
Kamryn Jackson covers high school and college sports for the Spartanburg Herald-Journal, Greenville News and Anderson Independent Mail, and the USA TODAY Network. Please email her at KEJackson@gannett.com and follow her on X, formerly known as Twitter, @KamxJack.
Cyclones coach Bill Fennelly talks about his team’s win over Mercyhurst
Iowa State women’s basketball coach Bill Fennelly recaps his team’s win over Mercyhurst.
AMES – After a week off from competition, the Iowa State women’s basketball team returns to the court today.
The 11th-ranked Cyclones (9-0) will face Northern Illinois (2-6) on Sunday at Hilton Coliseum at 1 p.m. CT.
It’s Iowa State’s first game since handing Indiana its first loss of the season in the Coconut Hoops event in Fort Myers, Fla., back on Nov. 30. Audi Crooks scored a single-game school record 47 points during the 106-95 victory over the Hoosiers that day.
Watch Iowa State vs. Northern Illinois on ESPN+
What channel is Iowa State vs. Northern Illinois on today?
Iowa State vs. Northern Illinois time today
Location: Hilton Coliseum in Ames, Iowa.
Date: Sunday, Dec. 7
Start time: 1 p.m. CT
Tommy Birch, the Register’s sports enterprise and features reporter, has been working at the newspaper since 2008. He’s the 2018, 2020 and 2023 Iowa Sportswriter of the Year. Reach him at tbirch@dmreg.com or 515-284-8468.
Tommy Rittenhouse threw five interceptions Saturday. He atoned big time when it mattered most.
The Illinois State quarterback threw two touchdown passes to wide receiver Daniel Sobkowicz in the final three minutes and completed a gutsy 2-point PAT as the unranked Redbirds defeated No. 1 North Dakota State 29-28 in the second round of the FCS playoffs in the Fargodome on Saturday.
The Bison (12-1), the No. 1 seed, were defending FCS champions and had not lost since Nov. 23, 2024. The Bison won the FCS title 10 times from 2011 to 2024 and had beaten the Redbirds 14 straight times.
“I’ll do it again if we win by 1 point, I don’t care,” Rittenhouse said of his five INTs. “My first three interceptions were tipped at the line of scrimmage. They (NDSU) did a great job all game. That’s a really tough defense to go against, but I just trusted the guys around me. Everyone was coming up to me saying it, and I knew I was going to. That’s all I could do to give us a chance.”
WE TOLD Y’ALL ABOUT THAT RITTENHOUSE TO SOBKOWICZ CONNECTION 🤯 https://t.co/Qt7MuPLLKr pic.twitter.com/2dVZxKMTnT
— Illinois State Football (@RedbirdFB) December 6, 2025
Illinois State head coach Brock Spack said his team was partly motivated by their 42-10 defeat to UC Davis in the second round last year.
“Sometimes what happens in the last game of the season is good for you,” Spack said. “That (loss) really bothered them. That’s what I told them today, lets just be us. Just be us. That’s all you gotta do and you can win the game.”
By most measures, the Redbirds (10-4) had little chance of winning. The Bison returned one of Rittenhouse’s picks 73 yards for a touchdown and another one 21 yards to the Illinois State 4, leading to a touchdown that gave NDSU a 28-14 lead with less than 13 minutes remaining in the game.
But NDSU senior quarterback Cole Payton, considered an NFL draft prospect, struggled for most of the game and completed 4 of 12 passes for 101 yards and one touchdown. He was injured after being strip-sacked by Jake Anderson, who recovered the fumble to give Illinois State the ball at the NDSU 23 with 1:51 left in the game.
Several plays later, on fourth down and goal from the NDSU 6, Rittenhouse scrambled right and threw to a leaping Sobkowicz for their third TD connection of the day to bring the Redbirds to within a point.
“I’m not the best at rolling to the right, throwing it back, and I found that good touch and Dan went up and made the play,” Rittenhouse said.
“The play (call) didn’t plan out how we wanted it to, but when you have Tommy at quarterback and he’s got his legs and scramble drill, you gotta make sure you’re doing everything you can to get open,” Sobkowicz said. “The scramble drill is the biggest thing in football that gets overlooked, and that a big thing that our team does really well, is the scramble drill, especially because we have Tommy.”
Rather than try a PAT kick and potentially send the game into overtime, Spack opted to go for 2. Rittenhouse fired a dart to Scotty Presson Jr. in the end zone to put the Redbirds on top.
Spack said he and his coaching staff had no hesitation about going for 2.
“I thought myself earlier in the week, we gotta for 2,” Spack said. “We met as a staff and I said, listen fellas, if it gets to that down here we need to go for 2. Lo and behold, it came up and we did. So, there was really no waffling. Everybody knew.”
REDBIRDS WITH A 2PT CONVERSION🤯🤯
📺ESPN+#ValleyFootball x #FCS x @RedbirdFB x @NCAA_FCS pic.twitter.com/llBWjZmnVm
— Valley Football (@ValleyFootball) December 6, 2025
Taking over at quarterback for the injured Payton, Nathan Hayes got the Bison to their own 44 but couldn’t convert on fourth down with 12 seconds left.
Illinois State will play the winner of the UC Davis-Rhode Island game in the next round. The FCS bracket is shown here.
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