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‘Tis the season for the possibility of heavy snow to hit Chicago this weekend — wintry weather that has prompted Christmas tree lots to protect their precious abundance of Frasers, Balsams, White Pines destined for living rooms.

“What do they call it? The calm before the storm?” John Tuttle said on a chilly, sunny Friday morning from a tree lot where he works outside St. Matthias School in Lincoln Square, knowing that he will have to cover up the trees before the day is out.

“We don’t like seeing the snow coming. But, you know, you’ve got to deal with it. It’s Mother Nature,” James Potocnik, of Poor Bob’s Tree Land in the Forest Glen community, said from his lot earlier in the morning. “We would rather have snow than rain. But we’d rather hav

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