Southern Illinois dam fails after severe storms pound the Midwest. Hundreds ordered to evacuate
Severe storms in the Midwest have overtopped a dam in southern Illinois and left the Chicago area cleaning up.
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Severe storms in the Midwest have overtopped a dam in southern Illinois and left the Chicago area cleaning up.
Tornadoes, dangerous straight-line winds, and other hazards rocked the Chicago area for a second night in a row Monday. At least one person was killed during the storm outbreak.
Meteorologist David Yeomans has a recap of the storms that brought multiple tornadoes and serious damage to the entire Chicago area, from the First Alert Weather Center.
ComEd's Lauren Huffman joins Irika Sargent by phone, and urges customers to report outages or downed power lines.
Jermont Terry was on the scene as the concert was getting out amid the dangerous storm.
While the NWS did not give precise locations for the tornadoes, the two in Chicago were on the city's South Side. The other was in Elburn.
Three tornados touched down in the Chicago area Sunday night, including two on the city's South Side, the National Weather Service confirmed.
CBS 2 Meteorologist Mary Kay Kleist has the 10 p.m. forecast for Sunday, July 14, 2024.
The National Weather Services says the remnants of Hurricane Beryl spawned four tornadoes in Indiana, including an EF-3 twister with winds as high as 140 mph that tore through a small city in the state's southwestern corner.
A tornado left damage behind on Southern Indiana, and two tornadoes were confirmed in the Buffalo, New York area.
Neither of the storms brought about tornado warnings. Both were EF-0 tornados.
The tornadoes hit the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. areas Wednesday night.
The family in Greenfield, Iowa said they remember hearing what sounded like a train moments before the tornado hit.
Additional showers and storms will be possible late Sunday through the evening hours.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says it could be the worst hurricane season ever, largely due to the warmest ocean surface temperatures on record.
Heavy rain, large hail, and at least one tornado hit parts of Texas on Wednesday night. FEMA's administrator is expected to visit Iowa after deadly tornados there.
There were multiple fatalities from a tornado that ripped through the small Iowa town of Greenfield, which saw homes and businesses destroyed.
Wind gusts reached 60 to 70 mph in Hampshire, Illinois, in Kane County.
A tornado killed several people and nearly leveled the town of Greenfield, Iowa on Tuesday. CBS 2's Marybel Gonzalez reports.
A wind turbine near Carbon, Iowa was knocked down by a tornado and caught fire Tuesday afternoon. CBS 2 Meteorologist David Yeomans notes that the storm that caused the tornado is coming our way.
Weather officials say the tornado reached an estimated peak wind of 135 mph and touched down near the intersection of S. 10th Street and W. R Avenue. It traveled for about 11 miles, damaging home roofs and sidings.
A tornado also caused extensive damage in Portage, Michigan, near Kalamazoo.
Firefighters successfully rescued 24 sheep, 18 goats, one cow, and several chickens and ducks.
The system hit the Kalamazoo area in Michigan after it passed through the Chicago area.
A total of 17 animals were unaccounted for after the barn collapsed near Harvard, Illinois, as Kris Habermehl reports from Chopper 2. Meanwhile, hail piled up like snow in Palos Heights, and a tornado touched down in Southwest Michigan.
The Old Town Pour House isn't in its namesake neighborhood anymore, but it's returning to the central area of Chicago — specifically in the Loop.
Students at Evanston Township High School in Evanston, Illinois, are bringing a new meaning to the term "home school."
The schools announced Monday they have agreed to a four-game home-and-home series.
Chicago Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez (25th) filed a lawsuit last week, taking the Illinois State Board of Elections to task for what he said are unnecessarily high hurdles for third-party candidates to get on the ballot.
A Southwest Airlines flight landed safely at Midway International Airport on Monday morning despite the nose-gear tires blowing out.
Chicago Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez (25th) filed a lawsuit last week, taking the Illinois State Board of Elections to task for what he said are unnecessarily high hurdles for third-party candidates to get on the ballot.
Chicago's Mamdani moment might come in the form of a more socialist City Council. The Chicago DSA is working to oust aldermen and advance taxing the rich.
The order came after Republican Senators Thom Tillis and John Cornyn threatened to block Blanche's confirmation for Attorney General if the fund was not rescinded in writing.
A new court ruling will keep Illinois from having to turn over its full list of voter information to the federal government.
Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias officially announced his campaign for mayor of Chicago on Sunday. He said, "Chicago should never become a city reserved only for the wealthy,"
The Trump administration is taking aim at power grid operator PJM Interconnection over rising electricity bills that affect Illinois and Indiana residents.
Chicago remained the most bed bug-treated city in the country, according to Orkin's latest annual rankings covering a full year of residential and commercial treatment data.
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul this week warned residents cleaning up from last month's storms to be on the lookout for scams.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday signed several new consumer protections into law, including a ban on junk fees.
CBS News Chicago has learned that Illinois home insurance premiums are not only higher than the nation's average, but going up faster too.
East Chicago, Indiana is being placed on a precautionary boil water advisory starting Monday morning for planned installations that could affect water safety.
A new Northwestern Medicine study on long COVID shows women show more neurological symptoms than men.
A lettuce supplier to fast-food giant Taco Bell has been linked to a nationwide cyclosporiasis outbreak that has sickened thousands of people, the CDC said.
Chicago just barely made the top 20 in the American College of Sports Medicine's 2026 ranking of the country's fittest cities.
In a major turnaround in the opioid crisis, overdose deaths are falling across Chicago and Cook County.
The Old Town Pour House isn't in its namesake neighborhood anymore, but it's returning to the central area of Chicago — specifically in the Loop.
Stella's Diner in Chicago's East Lakeview community has gone out of business.
A Wisconsin appeals court reversed a lower court ruling that had declared Act 10 unconstitutional, keeping the 2011 law limiting public workers' collective bargaining rights in place as unions prepare to appeal to the state Supreme Court.
The changing developments at 1800 N. Clybourn Ave. represent a microcosm of 40 years of changing development priorities on the Clybourn Corridor as a whole, and in Chicago and beyond.
The food deserts on Chicago's South and West sides could spread even wider if seven Save A Lot grocery stores close.
Vincent Pastore played Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero on all six seasons of "The Sopranos," which aired from 1999 to 2007.
If weather forces an evacuation, shelter sites are located at Grant Park North, Grant Park South, and Millennium Lakeside Garages, accessible through the vehicle entrance on Michigan Avenue.
Grant Park was filled with tens of thousands of people Thursday for the start of Lollapalooza, as warm weather greeted festivalgoers on day one of the four-day music festival.
Academy Award-winning Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard has died in a motorcycle crash.
Actor William Shatner and his daughter, Melanie Shatner Gretsch, recall how they helped each other as they fought Stage 4 cancer side by side.
The Old Town Pour House is returning to the central area of Chicago — specifically in the Loop.
Meteorologist David Yeomans has your 11 a.m. First Alert Weather forecast for Monday, Aug. 3, 2026.
Students at Evanston Township High School are bringing a new meaning to the term “home school.”
A total of 4,000 charter school students in Chicago went back to school, just in time for a sales tax holiday for those buying supplies. Lauren Victory reports.
“The Cube” is an interactive experience based on the TBS show of the same name. Brett Hintz, general manager of The Cube Chicago, joins us live.
Relief is on the way for families of kids going back to school, with a sales tax holiday.
Three Chicago police officers, as well as a man and a child, were injured overnight in a crash in the Washington Park neighborhood.
Lollapalooza 2027 came to an end in Chicago's Grant Park Sunday night, as crowds emptied out and headed home.
The Old Town Pour House isn't in its namesake neighborhood anymore, but it's returning to the central area of Chicago — specifically in the Loop.
Students at Evanston Township High School in Evanston, Illinois, are bringing a new meaning to the term "home school."
A clean energy initiative on the South Side of Chicago is increasing access to solar energy and electric vehicle charging stations, and community members say it's making a difference.
A glitch in the Illinois Tollway system earlier this month left about 100,000 drivers with unexpected warnings about unpaid tolls, some dating back about a year.
Chicago's Office of Emergency Management, which oversees roughly 200 traffic aides, says two were seriously injured by drivers this summer — leaving many uneasy on the job as Lollapalooza brings heavy traffic downtown.
Shavonne Worthy said she visited her mother's grave at Oakridge-Glen Oaks Cemetery in Hillside and found an empty hole where the headstone had stood for nearly 10 years — and the cemetery's new owner told her it was removed intentionally.
Earlier this month, charges were dropped in one case against Weinstein, but he still faces charges in New York and California.
The schools announced Monday they have agreed to a four-game home-and-home series.
Ahead of the MLB trade deadline on Monday, the Chicago White Sox have reportedly added right-handed reliever Huascar Brazobán in a trade with the New York Mets.
Buffalo Grove, Illinois, native Till Bartkovjaks, 12, is a master of judo — and he's currently getting ready to represent Team USA for the second time, in Mexico in November.
The Major League Baseball trade deadline is coming up at 5 p.m. Monday, and the Chicago Cubs have already made a pair of deals with the Toronto Blue Jays.
José Caballero lined a two-run homer, Gerrit Cole pitched into the sixth inning and the New York Yankees hung on to top the Chicago Cubs 2-1 on Sunday.
Thieves stole an ATM from a gas station in Chicago's Roseland community early Monday.
Two young men and a teenage boy were shot and wounded early Monday in Chicago's Park Manor community.
A man was stabbed late Sunday night in a fight with a woman on Chicago's West Side, police said.
The suspect, identified as 24-year-old Chad Williams, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.
Savannah Guthrie said she and her family have been "in agony and despair ever since" her mother Nancy's disappearance in February.
