In Cook County, numerous planes reportedly toppled over in the wind — which reportedly gusted to 84 mph at O’Hare International Airport — around 6:25 p.m. Monday.
Near Elk Grove Village around 6:30 p.m., roofing material started flying off an industrial building.
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The entire roof of a three-story apartment building was ripped off near Maywood about 6:50 p.m.
Metra reported entire trees blocked the BNSF railroad in Brookfield, between the Congress Park and Riverside stations around 7 p.m.
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Ten minutes later, the wall of a parking garage in Lincoln Park was “blown out,” according to storm damage reports shared by the National Weather Service, which attempted to collect damage reports from the supercell storm system that moved approximately 100 miles from Kane and McHenry counties to northwest Indiana Monday night.
And by 7:53 p.m. a tree fell on and destroyed a home in Porter County, Indiana. Reports of hail throughout the area came in as large as 1.5 inches in diameter, according to trained weather spotters.
The weather service said no injuries had been reported from the storm, but meteorologists continued collecting damage reports early Tuesday.
Check back for updates.