When the weather turns cold, it’s time to bundle up and take care of yourself. Limiting your exposure to the elements is the best way to ensure that you’ll be healthy and comfortable during the cold winter months, and the same applies to your car. Like you, it needs protection, because cold weather can have an adverse effect on your vehicle’s vital systems.
Some driving laws seem to be like the law of gravity — they’ll always be there. Red probably will always mean “stop,” and green likely will always mean “go,” for example. But even though you may have aced your driving test all those years ago, that doesn’t mean that what you learned in driver’s ed always will be the law. Although it’s unlikely that Illinois suddenly would declare that blue means “stop,” it’s important for anyone using Illinois roads and highways to keep up with the latest changes in driving laws.
If there’s one thing Chicagoans know a lot about, it’s getting through winter. After all, we’re not known as “The City That Works … As Long As The Weather’s Not Too Bad.” Life in the city doesn’t stop just because of a few inches of snow, or because the streets are covered with black ice, or because it’s cold enough to flash-freeze a moose. We Chicagoans are supposed to be a hearty bunch, and that means we hit the roads even when they’re buried under an inch of slush and sleet. Driving under these adverse conditions is a rite of passage for Chicagoans. Though anyone who has been stuck on the Dan Ryan in January can tell you that not everyone is successful at it.
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