Event narrative (NOAA)
A 69 year old man was walking through a parking lot in Barrington, during the blizzard, and suffered a fatal heart attack. A 58 year old man from Lyons died of a heart attack late in the evening of February 1st while shoveling snow. A 60 year old Chicago man was either blown in or had fallen into Lake Michigan near Diversey Harbor late in the evening of February 1st. Several hours later, his body was pulled out of the water. A 60 year old Chicago Streets and Sanitation worker had gotten out of his truck to help shovel snow around the carts on the morning of February 6th and suffered a fatal heart attack. A Mount Prospect man (his age unknown) died of a heart attack after shoveling his neighbor's driveway.
Other notable blizzard events in Illinois
Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.