Images: Your Tuesday blizzard photos

from the Zoo Stop on the BNSF this evening. E-mail your blizzard photos to storm@dailyherald.com Rob Olewinski/cmraseye.com

Palatines Rick Brand, left, and Phil Brand shovel Tuesday afternoon before the big snows hit.Email us your blizzard photos to storm@dailyherald.com Scot Gregor

Already more than 2 inches in 30 to 45 minutes. This is the first shot of this area for the storm. That shed likes to become snow drift heaven, so we will have to keep an eye on it.Email us your blizzard photos to storm@dailyherald.com Richard Johnson

You definitely cant see the park, can barely make out the sign or the huge hill about 200 feet away.Email us your blizzard photos to storm@dailyherald.com Richard Johnson

Students exit Winston Campus Elementary School in Palatine during an early dismissal Tuesday afternoon.Email us your blizzard photos to storm@dailyherald.com Scot Gregor

Gurnee, IL view of the tollway lights from my house. Snow drifts and the local park.E-mail us your blizzard photos to storm@dailyherald.com. Rebecca Hoffmann

From my balcony at La Casa Bianco Condos in Des Plaines. Taken about4:00pm on 2-1-11. How can we tell if spring is coming when theyvecancelled Groundhog Day for tomorrow?? YIKES!E-mail us your blizzard photos to storm@dailyherald.com. Jane Phillips

E-mail us your blizzard photos to storm@dailyherald.com. Dan Currier

Here is my four year old, Charlie, outside our house in Oak Lawn. He says he will shovel for people, accepts his payment in cookies!E-mail us your blizzard photos to storm@dailyherald.com. Becky Long Zuzich

Snowfall in Plato Township on Tuesday.E-mail us your blizzard photos to storm@dailyherald.com. Sandra B. Smith

E-mail us your blizzard photos to storm@dailyherald.com. Dan Currier

Snowfall in Plato Township on Tuesday.E-mail us your blizzard photos to storm@dailyherald.com. Sandra B. Smith

Gurnee, IL view of the tollway lights from my house. Snow drifts and the local park.E-mail us your blizzard photos to storm@dailyherald.com. Rebecca Hoffmann

In Palatine, on Anderson Driev where snowplows are doing there best to clear the streetsE-mail us your blizzard photos to storm@dailyherald.com. Tyler Squeo

Picture of the snarling snow on my balcony in Lake in the Hills.E-mail your blizzard photos to storm@dailyherald.com Jason Schafer

A snowmobiler cruises the streets of Arlington Heights Tuesday night.E-mail your blizzrd pictures to storm@dailyherald.com. Rich Klicki

Calm before the storm - LibertyvilleE-mail your blizzard photos to storm@dailyherald.com Catherine Ryan

Photo of todays blizzard in Mt prospect, IL 8:15pmE-mail your blizzard photos to storm@dailyherald.com Monika Waz

Taken at 8:30pm Tuesday in Arlington HeightsE-mail your blizzard photos to storm@dailyherald.com Jamie Sotonoff

Taken at 8:30pm Tuesday in Arlington HeightsAnnie Bartosch, 7, of Arlington Heights, experiencing her first blizzard.E-mail your blizzard photos to storm@dailyherald.com Jamie Sotonoff

those little lights are the houses across the street-but you cant see them through the snow.E-mail your blizzard photos to storm@dailyherald.com Loree Norberg

9:30 PM view of Algonquin Road in Hoffman Estates.E-mail your blizzard photos to storm@dailyherald.com Lori Cavicchioni

from the Zoo Stop on the BNSF this evening.E-mail your blizzard photos to storm@dailyherald.com Rob Olewinski/cmraseye.com

we closed the door but did not lock it and ended up with a mini-drift just inside.E-mail your blizzard photos to storm@dailyherald.com Loree Norberg

from the Zoo Stop on the BNSF this evening.E-mail your blizzard photos to storm@dailyherald.com Rob Olewinski/cmraseye.com

Everyone is trying to flee the City early as this cattle car shows. It sure beats driving!Email us your blizzard photos to storm@dailyherald.com Tom Hanschman

Tell me again why we choose to live in the Midwest????E-mail your blizzard photos to storm@dailyherald.com Mike Brown

Gurnee, IL view of the tollway lights from my house. Snow drifts and the local park.E-mail us your blizzard photos to storm@dailyherald.com. Rebecca Hoffmann