Our images: Digging out from blizzard
Mail carrier Mike Diesing trudges through deep snow on Belmont Avenue while delivering the mail in Arlington Heights. His route consists of around 160 homes and 80 condos and he has been on it since 1990.
Bill Zars/bzars@dailyherald.com
Kyle Walter,13, left, helps his friend Steven Tellano, 12, dig out on Wilke Road Thursday.
Bill Zars/bzars@dailyherald.com
Juan Gonzalez continues to cut paths to the stores on Highland Avenue and Campbell Street.
Bill Zars/bzars@dailyherald.com
Eight-year-old Peter Kurek takes advantage of the day off from school to try out the sledding hill in Meineke Park in Schaumburg.
Bob Chwedyk/bchwedyk@dailyherald.com
Michele Ludvigsen braves the cold as she returns shopping carts to the Dominicks in Town Square in Schaumburg.
Bob Chwedyk/bchwedyk@dailyherald.com
Angela Mancuso shovels out the remnants of the blizzard from her driveway in Schaumburg.
Bob Chwedyk/bchwedyk@dailyherald.com
Passengers wait in line at the Terminal One ticket counter at OHare International Airport Wednesday.
JOE LEWNARD/jlewnard@dailyherald.com
Traffic is moving slowly on northbound Arlington Heights Road between Elk Grove Village and Arlington Heights partially due to the fact that not all lanes of the roadway have been plowed.
JOE LEWNARD/jlewnard@dailyherald.com
Traffic is moving slowly on northbound Arlington Heights Road between Elk Grove Village and Arlington Heights partially due to the fact that not all lanes of the roadway have been plowed.
JOE LEWNARD/jlewnard@dailyherald.com
Most United flights are listed for On Time departures during the early afternoon at OHare International Airport Wednesday.
JOE LEWNARD/jlewnard@dailyherald.com
Roosevelt Road in Wheaton on Thursday, which was one lane each way due to snow.
Bev Horne/bhorne@dailyherald.com
Ron Alexander, bottom, and Jim Albrecht carve out a path of snow in front of D&M Corvette Specialists in Downers Grove.
DANIEL WHITE/dwhite@dailyherald.com
Ron Alexander, bottom and Jim Albrecht, right, rest after shoveling a snow path in front of D&M Corvette Specialists in Downers Grove.
DANIEL WHITE/dwhite@dailyherald.com
Ron Alexander piles some high snow in front of D&M Corvette Specialists in Downers Grove.
DANIEL WHITE/dwhite@dailyherald.com
Ogden Avenue is down to one westbound lane in front of D&M Corvette Specialists in Downers Grove.
DANIEL WHITE/dwhite@dailyherald.com
Ron Alexander, bottom and Jim Albrecht, top, carve out a path snow in front of D&M Corvette Specialists in Downers Grove.
DANIEL WHITE/dwhite@dailyherald.com
Jim Albrecht piles ihigh snow in front of D&M Corvette Specialists in Downers Grove.
DANIEL WHITE/dwhite@dailyherald.com
Part of the garden center roof at K-Mart in Naperville collapsed.
PAUL MICHNA/Pmichna@dailyherald.com
Part of the garden center roof at K-Mart in Naperville collapsed. This is the garden center.
PAUL MICHNA/Pmichna@dailyherald.com
Piles of snow are removed from the Dominicks grocery store in Mundelein Thursday morning.
Paul Valade/pvalade@dailyherald.com
A motorist hit the ditch early Thursday morning due to an icy Route 176 just west of Island Lake.
Paul Valade/pvalade@dailyherald.com
Libertyville resident Bill Pozdro snow blows his driveway as people dig out from the blizzard.
Steve Lundy/slundy@dailyherald.com
Postman Lamar Allred traverses a snow bank on Ames Street in Libertyville.
Steve Lundy/slundy@dailyherald.com
Libertyville resident Katie Lenzie clears her driveway as people continue to dig out from the blizzard.
Steve Lundy/slundy@dailyherald.com
Huge snow piles like this one on Butterfield Rd. in Libertyville are what remain after the blizzard.
Steve Lundy/slundy@dailyherald.com
Park Street Restaurant employee Vincente Sanchez shovels out a path to the Mundelein business.
Steve Lundy/slundy@dailyherald.com
Ben Zinser, 12, and friend Salm Atac build a snow fort in front of their Batavia homes as kids in the area enjoy a second straight snow day following the blizzard.
Rick West/rwest@dailyherald.com
Oscar Acosta, left, and Alberto Lagos of Azteca Towing dig out a path Thursday so they can tow a car that ended up in a ditch on the east side of Randall Road just south of Silver Glen Road during Tuesday nights blizzard. The driver of the car, who preferred not to be identified, said he was driving southbound along the unplowed road when he hit the brakes to avoid another car that had lost control. He ended up slowly sliding off the road and into the ditch.
Rick West/rwest@dailyherald.com
Home of Mary Damisch on Big Timber near unicorporated Rutland Township has snow plowed up close to 10 feet in one spot in her driveway. A city truck plowed the entrance to her driveway, but she still needs snow cleared so she can get her car out of the garage further up the hill.
Laura Stoecker/lstoecker@dailyherald.com
Snowplows work in tandem as one plows and the second drops sand along westbound Plank Road near Plato Township.
Laura Stoecker/lstoecker@dailyherald.com
Both lanes of eastbound Route 20 at Route 47 in Pingree Grove were closed on Thursday morning.
Laura Stoecker/lstoecker@dailyherald.com
Teamwork helps clear the lot at Lily Lake Grade School on Route 47 . Dale Gommel of the Campton Township Highway Department, left, and Gordon Conro with Burlington School District 301 team up to speed the process. The township department has never teamed up to do this before as they are separate entities, but they share a common lot and Conros snow pusher was limited in what it could do. Conro said the school district was working on clearing nine school lots.
Laura Stoecker/lstoecker@dailyherald.com
The eastbound lane of Route 20 at the intersection with Route 47 in Pingree Grove remained blocked Thursday around noon while crews continued to clean up Route 20. The road was mainly cleared for two lanes of traffic, but crews were working on the shoulders where snow had piled up.
Laura Stoecker/lstoecker@dailyherald.com
Gordon Conro with Burlington School Dist. 301 works on getting the lot cleared at Lily Lake Grade School so the buses can get out and faculty can park at the school on Route 47.
Laura Stoecker/lstoecker@dailyherald.com
A pickup truck with a plow sits up against a guardrail on Big Timber Road east of Route 47 on Thursday.
Laura Stoecker/lstoecker@dailyherald.com
Clean up by a bobcat is completed on Grove Avenue in Hampshire on Thursday afternoon.
Laura Stoecker/lstoecker@dailyherald.com
The westbound lane of Route 72 at Route 47 in Pingree Grove was closed on Thursday morning.
Laura Stoecker/lstoecker@dailyherald.com
Workers clear Stadium Drive leading into St. Charles East High School.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
Workers clear Stadium Drive leading into St. Charles East High School.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com