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More than 640 flights canceled due to storm

Posted January 10, 2011 10:00 pm

By Paul Biasco

Stacy Smith and her dog, Leo, along with Colleen Gaughan and her dog, Boomer, take a jog in the Scarsdale neighborhood of Arlington Heights. Mark Black/mblack@dailyherald.com

More than 640 flights at O'Hare and Midway airports were canceled Tuesday due to winter weather conditions.

Snowfall continued into Tuesday evening with totals reaching 6 inches in some parts of the Chicago area. More than 5 inches fell at O'Hare International Airport, which faced nearly 600 cancellations and delays reaching more than an hour throughout the day. Midway had more than 40 flights canceled and also had most flights in and out of the airport delayed about 45 minutes, according to the Chicago Department of Aviation.

Lake effect snow is expected to continue early Wednesday in southern Cook and Will counties.

The aviation department is urging passengers flying out Wednesday morning to visit their airlines' websites to check the status of their flights before leaving for the airport.

A morning commuter crosses the train tracks at Lee and Miner streets in Des Plaines as a train pulls in on Tuesday. George LeClaire/gleclaire@dailyherald.com

Des Plaines public works employee Vic Kanka removes snow from the sidewalk on Miner Street in Des Plaines. Kanka said the city should have no trouble keeping up with todayÂ’s moderate snowfall. George LeClaire/gleclaire@dailyherald.com

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