With the first snow of the season -- in the middle of fall -- the Chicago area looked like a snow globe.

Overnight and early Monday morning, a winter storm dumped heavy, lake effect snow to many parts, including between six and 12 inches in some parts. But other areas, especially to the west saw "barely a dusting."

"Quite the snowstorm, depending on where you live ," NBC 5 Storm Team Meteorologist Pete Sack said.

According to Sack, isolated areas in Lake and Kankakee Counties in Illinois, parts of northwest Indiana and parts of southeast Wisconsin were "bullseyes" for where the most snow fell, with other parts spared. Later Monday morning, snowflakes were continuing to fall in Chicago as a plume of lake effect snow was winding its way through.

Those flakes were expected to continue

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