A winter storm brought snow to Chicago, parts of the Upper Midwest and the East Coast on Tuesday, after causing travel headaches in the Plains on Monday.

The storm, named Winter Storm Nathaniel by The Weather Channel, was the biggest storm Chicago has seen this season, ABC 7 reported. Chicago's O'Hare Airport reported 5.8 inches by noon, according to the National Weather Service.

The storm is expected to move up into the Northeast Tuesday evening, with accumulating snow into Wednesday morning.

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The storm caused numerous accidents along interstates in Nebraska on Monday, including a multi-vehicle pileup that shut down parts of eastbound Interstate 80 for about an hour and vehicles that slid off of Interstate 80 due to wintry conditions. A semitrailer truck jackknifed on the interstate near Lincoln, Nebraska.

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Snow also caused headaches in parts of Iowa and Kansas on Monday, with the Kansas Highway Patrol reporting multiple calls from drivers whose vehicles had slid off of icy roads west of Salina.

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