Bundle up, Chicago: winter is rolling in right on schedule. After a stretch of unseasonably mild November weather, the city is bracing for its first real taste of snow this weekend as a cold Canadian air mass sweeps into the Great Lakes region.

Friday will start out pleasant, with partly sunny skies and highs in the 50s and even low 60s. But by late Friday night, temperatures will dip into the 40s, setting the stage for a sharp cool-down. Saturday brings clouds thickening through the day, temperatures hovering in the 40s and by evening, rain pushing in from the south and west.

According to forecasters , that rain is expected to mix with, and eventually change to, wet snow between 8 and 10pm on Saturday night as temperatures slide into the 30s. Some slushy accumulation could develop ove

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