Officials say that a dam has failed near a small community in southern Illinois and that first responders are in the flooded area making sure everyone got out safely.
Thunderstorms with heavy rains and tornadoes rattled the Chicago area and elsewhere in the Midwest , overtopping a dam Tuesday in southern Illinois , cutting power to hundreds of thousands, and even sending weather forecasters scrambling for safety. A woman in Indiana died after a tree fell onto a home.
'And it kind of developed right near our office here in Romeoville, Illinois. ... We went and took cover. We have a storm shelter here.'A 44-year-old woman died in Cedar Lake, Indiana, in the southern fringes of the Chicago area, the Lake County coroner's office said.The weather service confirmed a tornado hit Des Moines, Iowa, as storms rolled through Monday afternoon and into the night. Police responded to calls about utility poles that snapped in two.
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