HYDE PARK — Sunday’s blizzard slowed Hyde Park down, but also created a strange magnet pull drawing many to the lakefront.
At Promontory Point on Sunday afternoon the roaring winds off the lake creating knee-high snowdrifts that half buried benches and the park’s limestone revetments.
In the middle of the field, Mark Brown labored making a small wall of snow as a windbreak as one side quickly became a snow bank.
“New York gets a little snow and it’s national news, in Chicago it’s just like ‘meh,’” Brown said.
Tracks from cross country skiers wove out of the park and down 55th Street as many in the neighborhood residents took to skis if they had to venture out. On some blocks ski tracks appeared almost as commonly as footsteps.
As Chicago Public Schools and the University of Chicago’s Laboratory School canceled Monday’s classes, the university said it would keep its doors open on Monday.
Maybe students will ski to class.
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