Days are still getting shorter in the Chicago area, but there is good news on the horizon, both literally and figuratively.

A series of key daylight milestones are coming up, and even as the weather gets colder in the Chicago area, there will be signs that summer may be closer than we think.

The first of those milestones will occur on Monday according to the website Sunrise-Sunset.org. On that date, the Chicago area will see its earliest sunset of the year, when the sun dips below the horizon just before 4:21 p.m.

Since the Earth’s orbit around the sun isn’t a perfect oval, the winter solstice does not line up perfectly with the earliest sunset and the latest sunrise of the year, and as a result Chicago will slowly start seeing later sunsets in the lead-up to the solstice, even though

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