CHICAGO (WLS) -- Light snow coated the Chicago area and Northwest Indiana on Tuesday.
ABC7 meteorologist Tracy Butler said the highest total seen by 9 a.m. was two inches.
As the snow winds down, temperatures are likely to drop a bit and so will the wind chills, Butler said.
Illinois State Police said they are on the Emergency Snow Plan,
Some people forced to go out in the frigid temperatures to shovel that snow Tuesday.
In Northwest Indiana, traffic was bumper-to-bumper along I-80/94 as the snow brought traffic to a standstill.
In New Lenox, snow plows and salt trucks worked to make the roads passible as they got more than an inch of snow. Neighbors were also bringing out their snow blowers to clear their driveways.
"It started about 530 this morning I cleaned off my deck about four times because I feed a lot of animals there and finally I waited until it stopped to work on it," George Sabrotny of New Lenox said.
The temperatures in the teens making it challenging to be outside for long periods of time.
"I go out and work for half an hour and then I go in. I just have to take more breaks and if you do that and you are dressed for it ," Sabrotny said.
Others took out their four-wheeler and went out on a joy ride to checkout the new layer of snow.
"Driving around on the four-wheeler, checking out the fresh new snow that we got. it's fantastic might as well as get out and enjoy it," Tom Mooi of New Lenox said.