Of course. In part this just follows the expected pattern–Boston gets more snow than Chicago, on average. And in part it’s normal variability. Naturally there will be some years when Boston has much colder and/or snowier winters than Chicago, and vice versa. All I’m saying is that over the long run of recorded weather, Chicago winters on average have been a few degrees colder than Boston, but Boston winters on average have been about 20% snowier than Chicago–but also with a lot more cold and/or freezing rain in Boston, since total winter precipitation in Boston is on average 50% to 100% higher than Chicago, depending on the month.
The concern in New England would be that the last several severe winters represent the “new normal.” One theory is that warmer air and water temperatures in the Arctic due to global climate change are releasing energy in the form of winds that push the Jet Stream further south, dragging cold Arctic air masses behind it—and the Northeast gets clobbered. But of course a few years of colder- and snowier-than-average New England winters don’t give anyone enough data to say that’s definitively what’s happening. But stay tuned.