White Christmas
Will Skokie, IL have a white Christmas?
Skokie, Illinois had snow on the ground on Christmas morning in 10 of the 22 Christmases measured from 1996 to 2025. The last white Christmas there was in 2017. A coin flip.
Measured at Chicago Botanic Garden, 8 miles north of Skokie. A white Christmas is an inch or more of snow on the ground at the Christmas morning reading, the line NOAA uses, counted from the station's own daily record.
The forecast for Christmas morning in Skokie starts on this page on December 18.