From Sunday it will be dark before 5 p.m

CHICAGO — The end of daylight saving time in Chicago is Sunday — paving the way for sunsets before 5 p.m.

According to SunriseSunset, starting at 2 a.m. Sunday, clocks will go back an hour and sunset for that day is set at 4:43 p.m.

For over two weeks, the city will continue to lose precious minutes of daylight every day after Sunday, on a slow march toward the earliest sunsets of the year: 4:19 p.m. December 6-11.

And Chicagoans who work 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. can expect to leave their jobs and go into the dark for most of January.

Since the sunsets continue to recede by the minute after December 11th, the first day with a sunset after 5 p.m. is planned for January 29th – which is also expected to be a full moon.

A ray of hope, at least for early risers: the time change to summer time shifts the sunrises up by about an hour.

Sunrise on Sunday will be at 6:25 a.m

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