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CHICAGO — A winter storm warning has been issued, with the National Weather Service predicting an 6 to 10 inches of snowfall by Saturday evening.
The warning is in effect from 9 p.m. Friday to 6 p.m. Saturday.
Most of the snowfall will take place after midnight, with periods of heavy snow possible by late Saturday morning.
The storm comes at the end of the third-snowiest January on record in Chicago. As of Friday afternoon, the city had 33½ inches of snow, below the 42½ inches that fell in 1918 and the 40.4 inches in 1979.
