St. Louis is no stranger to massive winter storms. 5 On Your Side archival footage documents numerous times when snow and ice paralyzed the entire region, including the so-called "blizzards" of '79 ...

The first Dairy Queen opened in Illinois in 1940, but it wasn't until 1985 that the treat known as the Blizzard came onto the scene and changed fast food desserts forever. The name of the frozen treat ...

The Quad-Cities and the surrounding area received over 11 inches of snow on the 1979 New Year's weekend. The weather in the area didn't improve much until late in February that year. On Jan. 2 the ...

Editor's note:This story was originally published in 2021. We are republishing it for the anniversary of the storm on Saturday. The Blizzard of '78 was a catastrophic storm that killed about 100 ...