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Earlier this week, we marked the 137th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire. Tonight, The Weather Channel's When Weather Changed History takes a closer look at the fire, including how the weather factored into the fire (heavily) and how Chicago recovered from the disaster. We got a chance this week to take a look at the episode and liked what we saw.

History + The Weather Channel = Nerd Nirvana. As part of their new series, When Weather Changed History, The Weather Channel is recreating the sinking of the Titanic "on a boat and in a pool" and they need your help, Chicago. A casting call has gone out looking for an "older male-Captain Smith-40's-60's preferably with a White Beard" and "5 females and 5 other males to be the officers of the boat and passengers." We'd go but we're still haunted by our own experiences as extras in films (including a Lindsay Lohan movie), so it's up to you, readers, to answer the call. Let us know if you get picked.

Chicagoist’s grandfather always made fun of our grandmother’s obsession with The Weather Channel because he said you could predict the weather with a simple tool he called the Weather Ball. To make a Weather Ball, you crumple up a piece of newspaper and place it on your windowsill before you go to bed. In the morning, bring your Weather Ball inside. If it is wet, it’s raining outside. If it is frozen, it’s cold and/or...

A couple of years ago, Alderman Gene Schulter of the 47th ward (and Chairman of the License Committee) was made aware of some scummy kennel operators in his area and was disgusted by what he found going on at their operations (e.g., dogs without food and water). He headed up a task force of sorts to ensure that kennels, grooming and other dog day care facilities would be held to some sort of standard in...

All experiments need a constant, and since the weather-forecasting game in Chicago is all over the map, we thought we’d turn to our old friend The Weather Channel to provide us with some less-than-extreme results. But since Chicagoist doesn’t have cable and isn’t over the age of 60, we don’t watch The Weather Channel. So the 24-hour weather station’s Web site was our source for weather this past week. We tend to use this as a primary source for weather anyway, since it is so readily available, and we wanted to know how it stacked up against the locally based meteorologists.

If you’re dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones we used to know, chances are you won’t be finding it in Illinois this year. Although The Weather Channel is noting possible flurries, with temperatures above freezing for the entire week, anything sticking around is highly doubtful. With the exception of the snowfall we saw on the first of the month, the 6.5’’ snow tally at O’Hare is half of the 12’’ that had...