Editor's Note: Our latest story on school closings for Tuesday, which includes more than 100 closures, can be found here. Our original story continues below.
More than a dozen Chicago-area schools have already announced closures or switches to e-learning for Tuesday as a cold weather advisory for much of Northeastern Illinois and Northwest Indiana continues to grip the region.
The closures follow some schools already closed Monday for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, including Chicago Public Schools.
Across the entire Chicago area, a cold weather advisory was in effect through 12 p.m. Monday, with wind chills as low as 20 degrees below zero. That advisory will go into effect again at 9 p.m., lasting through 12 p.m. Tuesday, when wind chills are expected to dip as low as 20 to 25 degrees below zero.
Tuesday, morning lows will be around -6, with wind chills between -15 and -25.
According to the Emergency Closing Center, as many as 13 Chicago-area schools had reported closures or switches to e-learning Tuesday. (NOTE: If you are accessing this link from our app, please go to your mobile browser).
Those closures include Harvey District #152, Homewood District #153, District #155 and #156 in Calumet City, along with City of Hobart Schools in Indiana.
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Several schools and daycares in Chicago were also closed, included Mary Crane Centers and at least two Horizon Science Academy locations.
Chicago Public Schools will also be closed Tuesday, according to the CPS calendar, but it won't be due to cold temperatures. According to CPS, Tuesday is marked as a "school improvement day," which means students will not be in session.
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The most updated list of closings can be found here.
Some relief is expected Wednesday, with highs in the low 20s and the chance for light snow. But wind chills will remain in the single digits, NBC 5 Meteorologist Pete Sack said.
By the weekend, temperatures were expected to bump up into the mid-30s, with more chances for on-and-off snow, Sack said.