Chicago School Closings Today — Live ECC Feed

Chicago School Closings Today — Live ECC FeedLive Chicago school and business closings sourced from the Emergency Closing Center (ECC) feed — the same feed WGN, ABC7, and Fox32 use. Plus how closings data works in other markets across the country.Closings are sourced differently depending on your area:

Chicago metro (LOT WFO): Live aggregated feed from the Emergency Closing Center (ECC) — schools, businesses, government, religious organizations. Updated continuously during winter and severe events.

Other markets: A link out to the local TV station or newspaper that maintains the closings list for that market. The dashboard pre-checks these URLs every 6 hours and swaps in a fallback link if the primary 404s.

Why this varies by marketEach TV station's closings system is custom-built and rarely exposes a public feed. The Chicago metro is unusual because three competing stations (WGN, ABC7, Fox32) all subscribe to the Emergency Closing Center, which does publish a feed.Part of the BloomWX learn library — beginner-friendly explainers covering every surface of the BloomWX weather dashboard. Open BloomWX to see live data for any U.S. county.