Multiple tornadoes touched down in parts of the Chicago area Wednesday, with residents now cleaning up from the storm damage.
The National Weather Service has confirmed a tornado touched down in Cicero and continued into Countryside and another tornado was confirmed in Huntley.
"The sound started real loud and the wind was really bad and you could see everything was falling over," Indian Head Park resident Gary Malone said. "It's the worst I've ever seen and I've been here about 40 years. "It was pretty terrifying but we've already checked in with everybody and everyone seems to be OK," Greg Timpe said.
Most of the homes seemed to be largely untouched. Some had damaged roofs, broken windows or torn siding. "It is what it is," said truck owner Jason Wojcicki. "At least everybody is all OK, that's how I looked at it. This is replaceable. People aren't." Huntley Battalion Chief Mike Pierce said firefighters and other emergency services were responding to downed power lines, trees and tree branches, and power outages had been reported.
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