Viewers from across central Illinois have submitted their photos of the storm and its aftermath that can be seen below. The restaurant posted on Facebook: “If your power is out, come to Palmer’s and bring your phone chargers. Yesterday's Hail Reports - High winds were reported in IN on 10/21/2020. Our interactive map allows you to see the local & national weather The derecho that blasted a swath of the Midwest spurred more than 600 such severe weather reports from Omaha, Nebraska, to northwest Indiana, knocking down trees and power lines. In the Logan Square neighborhood, tree branches plummeted onto power lines, cutting power on several blocks south of Diversey Avenue and east of Kedzie Street. “It’s pretty significant, it’s not straight line, you can see rotation, you can see debris.”. Good morning! ), Visit the Chicago Tribune at www.chicagotribune.com. Judy Wood Edstrom’s van was hit by part of a tree that split nearly in half in North Park following a lightning strike. There was a tornado in Rogers Park, whose ever heard of that?”. Meteorologist Matt Friedlein said the tornado likely was the most recent in the city in at least two years, potentially longer. In Lombard, more than 200 homes were in some way damaged by winds that exceeded 50 miles per hour at Glenbard South High School, according to a post on Facebook from the village of Lombard. More than 340,000 customers areawide were without power Tuesday afternoon, said John Schoen, a spokesman for the utility. The Lombard Veterinary Hospital was also damaged in the storm and is closed until further notice, according to a Facebook post. They planned to call for volunteers to help with the cleanup through their social media pages. The tower was being removed last night. I know that’s hard for people to hear, but really people’s power is going to be coming on between now and then,” Schoen said. The chance for rain/snow will decrease early tonight, but clouds will linger through the night. Enjoy a drink and some food. As of 3:30 p.m. Monday, the Ameren Illinois outage map reported 5,904 without power in Peoria County; 2,562 in Tazewell County; 1,118 in Fulton County; 2,922 in Knox County; and 416 in Woodford County. The last time the Chicago Tribune wrote about a tornado in city limits was a landspout near Midway Airport in 2016 — four years and one day before Monday’s tornado. Throughout the Chicago area, roads were blocked by downed trees and power lines. The last time the Chicago Tribune wrote about a tornado in city limits was a landspout near Midway Airport in 2016 — four years and one day before Monday’s tornado. There had been 635,000 customers out at one time at the height of the outages, he said. Twelve counties were hit by the storms today and last night," Governor Bruce Rauner said. @VORTEXJeff check out this tornado in Butler, IL just now!!!!!! One such structure was the Sheldon Peck Homestead, the oldest house in Lombard, built in 1839, according to Alison Costanzo, executive director of the Lombard Historical Society. Like us on Facebook to see similar stories, Columbus, Ohio votes to pay $475,000 settlement to officer who says police force discriminates against its own, A New Website Tracks Broken McFlurry Machines, Because We've All Been Heartbroken Before, By Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas and Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, Tens of thousands in northern Illinois still without power Tuesday following storms, © Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune/TNS. Firefighters also responded to numerous fires started by energized power lines, the Fire Department said in a tweet. (WEEK) -- A storm traveling through the Midwest on Monday left thousands without power and trees knocked down across central Illinois. About a third of ComEd customers in La Grange had no power Monday night, but Palmer Place Restaurant in the village’s downtown did. As of 3 p.m. Monday, Ameren Illinois activated its Emergency Operations Center in response to the severe storms. “This damage seems to have covered the entire city,” Eulitz said. The tornado was embedded in a storm with already strong winds and it quickly moved out over Lake Michigan, where the funnel became a waterspout, Leatherwood said. “Right now we expect to have the vast majority of customers up by Friday. In a matter of a couple seconds debris started flying. … I haven’t seen anything like that before in my life,” she said. A Twitter video of a tornado in Litchfield, Illinois, was posted by @217problems. Tornadoes were reported in Taylorville in central Illinois on Saturday. The home, which was restored to its 1839 configuration by the historical society, sustained roof damage, and has a tree against the east side of the building, Costanzo said. It swept east across Illinois and into Indiana, with winds of 40 to 70 mph, with some gusts as high as 92 mph, the weather service reported, but the Chicago area mostly dodged the direst consequences as no deaths were reported, forecasters said. @VORTEXJeff check out this tornado in Butler, IL just now!!!!!! One person was reported injured as a result, but additional details were not immediately available. pic.twitter.com/kvKBSTyXoL. There also was damage across a wide swath of Joliet after the storm, according to Mike Eulitz, public assets supervisor. The National Weather Service had put out among its highest threats of severe weather, which ended up displaying its forecasting ability when a tornado hit on the Far North Side in Rogers Park, said Brian Leatherwood, a meteorologist. Copyright © 2020 WLS-TV. More than 40,000 had power restored by Tuesday morning. Strong winds and hail accompanied some much-needed rain in a series of severe storms that swept through Central Illinois on Saturday night. None of the severe storms are expected to reach the Chicago area, but showers and storms will move in Saturday night. As of 3 p.m. Monday, Ameren Illinois activated its Emergency Operations Center in response to the severe storms. No one was injured. At least one semi-truck blew over in the Peru area as a result of the 60 mph-plus winds, Leatherwood said. The tower received extensive damage after collapsing onto the roof of the Princeton police station. Show full articles without "Continue Reading" button for {0} hours. It will be in areas “with really significant damage” where “a limited number of people, the absolute minority,” will be without power until Saturday, he said. And although the company already had called in 1,500 workers from out of state to help, there are customers who won’t have power restored until Saturday afternoon, he said. We look to be staying dry until Thursday when the…, 25 NEWS – WEEK Twelve tornadoes were reported Saturday afternoon in central Illinois. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC. or [email protected], All content © 2000 - 2020, WEEK Television, Inc. All rights reserved. Before that, it had been a decade since a tornado touched down in the city — and that one also was in Rogers Park, on the Loyola University campus in September 2006. See the latest Illinois Doppler radar weather map including areas of rain, snow and ice. Power outages remained an issue there, as well. In all, Illinois currently has 31,108 without power, according to the map. “It’s just incredibly mind-boggling, just the amount of damage that the storm did in a short amount of time,” she said.

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