The National Weather Service confirmed a tornado tore through Chicago’s south suburbs as part of a broader severe weather system that swept the Midwest, producing multiple twisters, a derecho, and widespread power outages. Damage in southern Cook County and eastern Will County was consistent with an EF1-rated tornado.
The storm system, which moved from Iowa into Indiana with wind gusts topping 80 mph, knocked out power to nearly 800,000 customers across Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky and contributed to at least three storm-related deaths across the region.
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