Cleanup is underway after severe weather hit northwest Indiana and the Chicago area. Storms swept through the region Monday July 27, 2026, resulting in damaged homes and downed trees. The National Weather Service Chicago said at their website that “intense severe thunderstorms” yesterday resulted in “several probable tornado paths” and areas of “extensive significant straight line wind damage”, and survey crews would be heading out to some of the hardest hit areas to conduct ground assessments. Here is a link to the National Weather Service Chicago recap of Monday’s severe weather – https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1479695227520636&set=a.301009895389181 .
Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO) says two rounds of storms Monday, first in the afternoon and then in the early evening, impacted a total of about 61,000 customers across its service area; about 18-thousand customers were without power early this morning. Here is a link for updates – https://www.nipsco.com/outages/power-outages . An outage update from Kankakee Valley REMC last night 10:30 pm said they were down to about 1,500 members without power. KV REMC said areas north of U.S. 30 and into Jackson Township, north and south of U.S. 6 sustained extensive damage, including at least 20 broken poles, numerous trees and downed lines. In Illinois, hundreds of thousands of ComEd customers were left without power. Hundreds of flights at both O’Hare and Midway airports were canceled.
In Illinois, reports say multiple homes in Lansing had their roofs ripped off and one home partially collapsed. A park district building in Crete was severely damaged when a tree crashed through the roof, collapsing a wall…