Chicago has been hit by multiple blizzards over the years, but this one still ranks as the heaviest when it comes to snowfall totals.

Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago) 1961 ... before the experiment was abandoned. 1979: The city was walloped by a massive blizzard that dumped 20.3 inches of snow.

The blizzard of 1967 buried Chicago under 23 inches of snow. Just 11 years later, another blizzard blanketed the city in almost a foot of snow. Just before the morning rush hour on Jan. 26 ...

A Midwest blizzard that delivered Chicago's heaviest snowstorm on record ... Chicago in 1999 (21.6 inches), 2011 (21.2 inches) and 1979 (20.3 inches). Worsening the conditions were wind gusts ...