Joseph Hospital reported that 185 people had been brought in from Lake Shore Drive. David Bennet says it took him 14 hours to get from downtown to his North Side home. On the one hand, they wanted to get people off the roadway, but on the other hand, they wanted them to remain in their cars so plows could attack the snow buildup.The Fire Department set up a mobile command center along North Lake Shore Drive, and came to each vehicle to check on people with water and granola bars. He told CBS 2 he left his office in Chinatown in the late afternoon Tuesday, and it was backed up. The plan is to reopen Lake Shore Drive when they believe it’s safe to do so, but it’s not known when that will be.“We know that hundreds do people were very inconvenienced, and we’re sorry about that,” Orozco said.Orozco emphasized that the city was monitoring Lake Shore Drive from the beginning and responded as swiftly as possible.“In 31 years with the city, I haven’t experienced anything like we did last night with Lake Shore Drive,” Orozco said.By viewing our video content, you are accepting the terms of our Glonke was told a jackknifed bus was to blame.Many cars ran out of gas, and were abandoned, as Glonke sat and exchanged text messages with his girlfriend, sister and mother.“The next thing you know, it’s 4:15 in the morning, and I was one of the last cars to come off who actually had a few fumes left in his tank to get to the gas station,” Glonke said.Another driver remained stranded on Lake Shore Drive at 5 a.m., and said he had been all but abandoned.“We’re at North Avenue right now. “I don’t want to jinx myself, but no. “There are some emergency people now coming with flashlights between the cars,” Roeder said. There were three accidents between 7:15 and 7:45 p.m., one of them involving a CTA bus. About 200 demonstrators briefly shutdown Chicago's Lake Shore Drive as they marched through one of the city's more affluent neighborhoods Thursday to draw attention to … Cars, city buses — even snowplows — became mired in fast-falling snow on the drive. Nobody’s told us anything.”A CTA bus driver told CBS 2’s Vince Gerasole he had been stranded on Lake Shore Drive since 5:40 p.m. Tuesday. There are snow drifts on our cars now.”Mayor’s chief of staff Raymond Orozco said first responders tried to get to stranded motorists as quickly as possible, but winds of 60 to 70 mph and snow falling at a rate of 1 to 2 inches per hour made that extremely difficult.The city shut down Lake Shore Drive, for the first time since the Blizzard of 1999.Before the city shut down the Drive, traffic had been crawling; it took upwards of an hour to travel only a mile. Cars, city buses — even snowplows — became mired in fast-falling snow on the drive.“I don’t want to jinx myself, but no. Heavier than we’ve seen in a number of winters,” he said at a Thursday news conference.Streets and Sanitation Commissioner John Tully says the snow will be heaviest from 10 p.m. Thursday to 10 a.m. Friday.“By 10 o’clock things should taper off a little bit, but we’re still going to get snow throughout the day (Friday) – one to three inches,” he said.The total with this latest snowfall is expected to be up to 10 inches during that window.Tully says the city has taken steps to avoid what happened seven years ago: the rush-hour snowstorm that shut down Lake Shore Drive. Chicago closed its public schools for the first time in 12 years and shut down Lake Shore Drive, where hundreds of motorists were stranded for 12 hours after multiple car accidents on the iconic roadway.
Windshield wipers were left up for cars that were empty.As for those who were rescued, many were taken to St. Joseph Hospital for cold exposure.