CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Chicago firefighters battled a house fire for more than two hours in subzero temperatures Thursday afternoon in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood on the Northwest Side.
Cold temperatures in the city set a new daily record and nearly dropped to an all-time low on Thursday, the second day of a brutal cold snap. The morning's temperatures dipped to 21 degrees below zero — minus 39 degrees with wind chill, according to the National Weather Service.
That's just 6 degrees short of the Jan. 20, 1985 record of minus 27, the lowest temperature ever recorded in Chicago.
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