A tornado touched down Wednesday evening near Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, prompting passengers to take shelter and disrupting hundreds of flights. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
Storm clouds pass over downtown Chicago and the Bronzeville neighborhood of the city heading East out over Lake Michigan as the National Weather Service continued to issue multiple tornado warnings in the greater metropolitan area Wednesday, July 12, 2023. –
By 8 p.m. the weather service said the Chicago forecast area was “currently tornado warning free." It said the storm was moving east toward southwest Michigan, and a tornado watch was in effect into Thursday morning for parts of Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.. Some 173 flights departing the airport were canceled and more than 500 were delayed, according to the flight tracking service FlightAware.WGN-TV Wednesday night that no damage was reported at either airport.
ABC-7-TV that firefighters and other emergency services were responding to downed power lines, trees and tree branches, and that power outages had been reported. Building damage appeared to be concentrated around two apartment buildings, he said.In Hodgkins, southwest of Chicago, police said storm damage and debris was found on the north end of town, near a shopping center.
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