Almost no one was prepared. It was early morning in a small Illinois town on March 19, 1948 when the ominous clouds rolled in. A monster tornado dropped onto an unsuspecting Illinois town leaving only 20% of it standing once the winds subsided.
It's a fascinating sight, but I'm not certain that I'd like to be the person seeing it. New video shows a spinning funnel cloud over Illinois and the viewpoint is straight up into the whirling vortex.
You never know what you might find when you're hiking in the woods of Illinois. A new exploration uncovered what appears to be a forgotten family cemetery hidden and abandoned for over a century.
You know you're in a massive hail storm when your gutters seem to turn into a snow machine. That's exactly what happened this week during a storm in Manteno, Illinois.
No matter what you might have seen in a movie, trains do not normally just plow through flood water. That harrowing scenario was a reality recently as a train in Illinois was spotted carefully making its way through Mississippi River flood waters that stood in its way.
There was a huge dust storm that completely overwhelmed drivers on I-55 in Illinois today. There are reports of crashes and stopped traffic with the pictures to prove it.