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Snowfall Totals: Who Got 8 Inches of Snow Sunday?

Here is a town-by-town list of measured snowfall for our record-setting first snow plus reader-submitted photos.

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The Chicago area finally got its first snowfall of the season on Sunday.

And Mother Nature held nothing back, leaving more than 8 inches of snow for some towns and going down in the record books as the largest first snowfall of the season for Chicago. The 6.1 inches of snow recorded at O’Hare Airport on Sunday beat the previous first snowfall record of 4.6 inches set back in 1964, according to the National Weather Service.

As for the Chicago-area town with the highest recorded snowfall for Sunday, those honors go to Romeoville where residents are digging out from 8.1 inches of snow.

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How did other towns fare during the first snowfall? Here is a rundown of how many inches fell in several Chicago-area towns:

  • Romeoville (Will): 8.1 inches
  • Joliet (Will): 7.5
  • Geneva (Kane): 7.4
  • Plainfield (Will): 7.2
  • Elburn (Kane): 7.0
  • North Aurora (Kane): 7.0
  • Elgin (Kane): 7.0
  • Downers Grove (Du Page): 6.9
  • Buffalo Grove (Lake); 6.9
  • Elk Grove Village (Cook): 6.8
  • Westmont (Du Page):.6.5
  • New Lenox (Will): 6.4
  • Batavia (Kane): 6.3
  • Riverwoods (Lake): 6.3
  • Manhattan (Will): 6.3
  • Woodstock (McHenry): 6.3
  • Homewood (Cook): 6.1
  • Aurora (Kane): 6.0
  • Harvard (McHenry): 6
  • Oak Lawn (Cook): 6
  • Chicago Ridge (Cook: 6
  • Park Forest (Cook): 6
  • Sugar Grove (Kane): 6
  • Lockport (Will): 6
  • Lake Zurich (Lake): 6
  • Wonder Lake (McHenry): 5.9
  • Countryside (Cook): 5.8
  • Mundelein (Lake): 5.8
  • Cary (McHenry): 5.6
  • Elmhurst (DuPage): 5.5
  • Gurnee (Lake): 5.5
  • Lakemoor (Lake): 5.5
  • Midway Coop (Cook): 5.5
  • St. Charles (Kane): 5.4
  • La Grange Park (Cook): 5.3
  • Highwood (Lake): 5.2
  • Oak Park (Cook): 5
  • Algonquin (McHenry): 5
  • Beach Park (Lake): 4.2
  • Hebron (McHenry): 4.1
  • Palatine (Cook): 4
  • Lincolnwood (Cook): 2.6
  • Waukegan (Lake): 2.1

Reader-Submitted Photos

The Chicago area saw its first official snowfall of the season Sunday. Below we've included some reader-submitted photos from the snow.

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This photo shows Old Wolf Road at about 207th in Mokena. Submitted by Nancy Osbourne.
Submitted by a reader of a gazebo in Lake Bluff.
Laura Zawodniak took this photo Sunday afternoon from her patio at Farmingdale apartments in Darien.
Ilona Vaughn shared this photo of her children in their backyard in Plainfield Township.
Susanna Ehrmann, of Glenview, took this photo from our living room window on Chestnut Street in Glenview Sunday afternoon.
Alan Brinkmeier shared this photo of Prairie Avenue in Elmhurst.
Shayna Doherty shared the accumulation of snow in the span of two hours off of her balcony in Darien.
Robert Brown shared a photo of the snowfall at his home in Mokena and of their 15-foot reindeer.
Diane Nickless shared this photo taken in Orland Park.
Submitted by Letha Sunnokrot of the snowfall Sunday in Palos Park.
Karen Morris shared this photo taken in Palatine outside her son's patio door.
Submitted by Armen Markarian.
Submitted by Leigh Jeter.

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