Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson announced his final appointment to the Chicago Board of Education Tuesday, completing the city's first-ever hybrid school board.

Ice and snow covers Promontory Point and the surrounding Lakefront Trail, as temperatures plummet in the Chicago area on Feb.

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As many as seven Chicago-area schools had announced delays, closures or e-learning Tuesday due as a cold weather advisory continues.

The advisory and school closures comes amid extreme cold warnings for 11 states across the U.S., stretching from the Canadian border to Oklahoma and central Texas.