With snow falling all day Sunday and into Monday, schools throughout Chicago closed their doors for class on Monday, February 1, now causing problems for future scheduling.

Lyons Township High School released an announcement on their website around 10:30 Sunday night that there would be no class the following day.

“[Part of the reason for the closure was] that it [the storm] was declared a blizzard,” Freshman Assistant Principal Kris Costopoulos said.

While Chicagoans were preparing for the storm, the Lyons Township High School Model United Nations club was at Harvard University for an overnight conference.

“[With the previous storm in Boston] the team could barely get out Friday to make it to their conference,” Costopoulos said. “When they heard about the incoming blizzard Saturday night they made calls to get their flight changed. They were able to get 24 seats and they ended up being the last flight out of Boston.”

The blizzard warning expired early Monday morning, but over 19 inches of snow was reported all throughout Chicago by that time.

With a snowfall this large, schools within the city, mostly with distance commuters, decided to close as well.

Eileen Norton is a parent who has a child attending Wolcott School in West Town, a neighborhood of Chicago.

“[The weather] really slowed down the trains and given that kids come from all over the city and suburbs it makes travel hard,” Norton said. “So then the students miss their shuttle buses [to get to school].”

For most schools this is the second snow day of the year, which means the end of the school year may be affected.

“We are not done with winter so we cannot decide what to do yet,” Costopoulos said.

A quick survey of Lyons Township students showed that no emergency days are preferred over emergency days with an extension into summer.

“I would rather have no emergency days at all because too many means adding to the end of the year,” Angelina D’Amico ’18 said. “[The snow days] then mess with summer vacations and different events like finals and graduation.”

With winter coming to a close, no one expects any more emergency days, but with Chicago you never know what to expect, Norton said.