Cleanup continues in Merrillville, Indiana, after last week's strong storms
A mess made in just moments is taking days for residents of Merrillville, Indiana, to clean up.
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A mess made in just moments is taking days for residents of Merrillville, Indiana, to clean up.
The worst of the damage was found along Taft Place, where homes were ripped open, and tree branches were left around the neighborhood. Like folks in Chicago, thousands of people have been without power for four days.
Days after storms brought 13 tornadoes to Northern Illinois and Northwest Indiana, utility crews were still working to restore power to customers who were still in the dark Monday morning.
Power has since been restored for many in the area, but the EF-2 tornado that swept through has left many with nowhere to go.
The storms that brought the tornadoes happened Thursday night. Early Monday morning, damage was still easy to find across parts of the area, notably including the southwest suburbs. Darius Johnson reports.
Teams from the National Weather Service on Sunday will be surveying damage caused by severe storms that brought tornado touchdowns to the Chicago area and other parts of northern Illinois last week.
ComEd has mobilized more than 3,000 employees, including line workers, tree crews, and damage assessors, along with help from other utility partners to get things restored as quickly as possible.
Only a couple of nights after severe storms brought 11 tornado touchdowns to northern Illinois and Northwest Indiana, another storm system was to blame for even more damage.
Teams from the National Weather Service on Sunday will be surveying damage caused by storms that brought tornado touchdowns to the Chicago area and other parts of northern Illinois last week. Asal Rezaei reports.
A tree was completely uprooted near 156th Street and Burnham Avenue in Calumet City.
The Merrillville community is still grappling with the destruction caused by an EF-2 tornado that tore through neighborhoods.
The National Weather Service confirmed multiple tornado touchdowns on June 11 across Illinois and Indiana.
Severe storms that swept through the Midwest late Thursday knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of customers, damaged buildings and canceled flights.
Cleanup is underway after a line of storms raced east through the suburbs and into the city at 70 to 80 miles per hour on Wednesday, and another round of severe storms is heading in Thursday afternoon and evening.
A massive tree came crashing down onto a van with the driver and six kids inside on Wednesday afternoon in Portage Park.
ComEd is responding to over 5,000 active outages on Thursday morning after severe storms overnight caused widespread damage in the Chicago area.
A stretch of Alsip is one of the hardest-hit areas, with one tree being ripped out from the roots and landing directly onto a home.
Michael McIntosh says he was driving a van with six kids from Riveredge Hospital. He pulled up on Henderson Street to drop one of the kids when a giant tree crashed down on the van with the kids inside.
The line of storms raced east through the suburbs and into the city at 70 to 80 miles per hour. Suzanne Le Mignot covers the damage left by the storms in Shorewood.
Two rounds of thunderstorms left damage -- including downed trees, power outages and minor flooding - in their wake Monday.
A High Wind Warning for gusts 50 to 60 mph is in effect for parts of the Chicago area Monday. Damage has been reported in the north suburbs and in parts of the city.
Residents across Illinois are waking up to storm damage and flooding on Wednesday morning after severe weather overnight.
Storms overnight led to flooding and damage overnight across Illinois.
Amid strong winds that topped 50 mph Thursday night, a large tree fell on two cars in Chicago's Lakeview East neighborhood, sending neighbors running outside.
Operation BBQ Relief has been out helping those impacted by last week's EF-3 tornado.
