The storm put the metropolitan Chicago area’s more than 9 million people under a blizzard warning Sunday, and another 65 million people are under a winter storm warning across 18 states.
More than 2,000 U.S. flights were canceled Sunday, many of them in and out of Chicago, according to Flightaware.com, an online flight-tracking service. Already for Monday, more than 1,000 flights have been scratched.
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“For anyone leaving Super Bowl parties, you’re going to have to be ready to be careful at that point,” said de Blasio. “I want to urge people to think ahead.”
CNN’s Kimberly Hutcherson, Joe Sutton, and meteorologist Derek Van Dam contributed to this report.
