Commuters make a sub-zero trek to offices in the Loop on January 6, 2014 in Chicago, Illinois. Temperatures in the city dipped to -16 degree Fahrenheit this morning on the heals of a polar vortex that has swept into the Midwest bringing with it dangerously cold temperatures not seen in the area in about 20 years.
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A prisoner who escaped from a minimum-security prison in Lexington, Kentucky, on Sunday walked into a local motel last night and asked a clerk to call the police so that he could be taken back to jail, where he would at least be protected from the area’s current single-digit temperatures. “It’s cold out there, too cold to run around,” said a police spokeswoman, as if everyone didn’t know that already.
