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The holiday week will start overcast for Chicago-area residents before turning sharply colder for a blustery travel day Wednesday and a breezy Thanksgiving Thursday.

Monday morning will break with fog, and the day is expected to close with spotty showers, mostly west of I-55. Scattered rains are forecast to continue Tuesday with 50-degree temperatures, followed by a drop on Wednesday to highs in the upper 30s and lows in the 20s.

“But the main story is Tuesday night and Wednesday, a strong cold front will be rolling through the area,” said Lee Carlaw, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Chicago. “It’ll kind of shift the winds out of the west and northwest.”

On Wednesday, wind gusts could reach up to 40 miles per hour, h

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