Homes and buildings in Kankakee County were reduced to piles of rubble late Tuesday night after severe weather and a reported tornado tore through the Chicago area, leaving behind at least seven people hurt, several schools closed and thousands of power outages.
“It sounded like bowling balls,” one resident in Kankakee County described. “We thought it was hail. It was literally a freight train. We stepped outside and saw our neighbor’s garage, gone. Our neighbors house, gone. Both our cars, our living room, our shed — gone.”
Early Wednesday morning, NBC 5’s Lisa Chavarria described the storm damage in the area as lightning and thunderstorms continued, with downed power lines, trees tangled up in debris and parts of buildings strewn about, including an Aldi grocery store…