CHAMPAIGN – It's only the second hour of John McKinney's 12-hour workday, and it's already a doozy.
Wind whips sheets of icy snow across the windows of the snowplow McKinney loops around the roads north of Interstate 74 in Champaign, his truck's giant shovel sending waves of white powder into the increasing drifts as he goes.
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