The worst of the latest blast of bitterly cold air was at its strongest Monday night into Tuesday morning, and residents are begging for spring. And thanks to widespread school cancelations, parents were forced to bring their kids to work or leave them at home alone.
"Dangerously cold temperatures will continue in the Midwest for the start of the work week with wind chills in the -20s, -30s and -40s," said weather.com meteorologist Chris Dolce. "In Chicago, the low temperature Tuesday morning will rival the coldest reading we saw in early January. Some cities will threaten daily record lows on Tuesday morning."
In Chicago, temperatures had fallen below zero by Monday afternoon with wind chills in the negative double-digits.
"We had two (employees) call in because they couldn't come to work because of the school closings, and another called in sick," said Kristelle Brister, the manager of a Chicago Starbucks, who was forced to bring her 9-year-old son to work after the city shut down its 400,000-student school system for the day.
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