The Chicago area Wednesday morning woke up to bitter cold, with temperatures in the single digits or even below zero.
And while a brief warm-up was on the way, an “Arctic blast” will move in by late this weekend, NBC 5 Meteorologist Alicia Roman said, with below-average temperatures expected to continue through the end of the month.
Around 5:15 a.m. Wednesday, several parts to the north and west were seeing sub-zero temperatures, Roman said, including Aurora, Kankakee, DuPage and Waukegan, where temperatures were between -4 and -6…