Warm winter forces some businesses and events to get creative

Mar 6, 2024
Parts of the Upper Midwest and Northeast were especially warm from December through February. These are areas of the country that rely on snow and cold to attract tourists and their dollars to ski resorts, ice rinks and snowmobile trails.
Water sits on the surface of the Millennium Park ice rink during an unusually warm winter day in Chicago last month.
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