Almost 15 inches of snow northwest of Chicago

Almost 600 flights in Chicago’s O’Hare global Airport were canceled – reporting 9.1 inches of snow by 7 a.m. Saturday.

Accumulation in the area could be as much as 4 to 7 inches.

The first significant snowstorm of the season created hazardous travel conditions and hundreds of flight delays.

Southside True Value Hardwar emanager Matt Krienke said business had been good in the days leading up to the storm, but that it had become “very, very, very, very slick”. As of noon, O’Hare saw 11.2 inches of snowfall on Saturday.

Midway global Airport, which is in the southeast part of Chicago, only had about 100 departing and arriving flights that had been canceled by Saturday morning. The rest of the north and northwest area are buried in snow between four to eight inches deep, according to The Los Angeles Times.

In Chicago, O’Hare global Airport is expected to break a record for snowfall on this date.

The National Weather Service reports the storm dropped 8 to 16 inches of snow from southeastern South Dakota to Wisconsin. Robert Schneck, 52, a worker for the maintenance division of suburban Park Forest, Illinois, had been called out for an unusual Saturday shift because of the storm.

A baby was cut from the womb of a 22-year-old woman who was almost nine months pregnant by a childhood friend with a knife, and the suspect was arrested on a murder charge, police said Saturday. Winter weather advisories are posted for multiple parts of MI, including Detroit, and northern Indiana. It’s topped only by 12 inches of snow that fell on November 25-26, 1895.

In IL, 10 inches fell in Lake & McHenry Counties, the National Weather Service said.

The storm system is moving east and will last through Saturday evening when it tails through MI, according to Richard Otto, lead forecaster at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Weather Prediction Center.

Parts of South Dakota and Iowa had more than a foot on Friday.

In Iowa, Des Moines had recorded 6 inches by late Friday and amounts of a foot or more were common in northern Iowa.