July 12 (Reuters) – Tornadoes and thunderstorms battered the greater Chicago area on Wednesday, temporarily forcing O’Hare and Midway airports to halt all air traffic, officials said, as tornado sirens echoed through the third biggest U.S. city. At least eight tornadoes touched down in four counties in northeastern Illinois, including four in Cook County, which […]
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Race to find survivors as US tornadoes kill dozens
US emergency workers searched Sunday for survivors of ferocious tornadoes that killed dozens of people across several states and left towns in ruins, but the governor of hard-hit Kentucky warned that cadaver dogs were still finding bodies. President Joe Biden called the rare late-season burst of twisters in the US heartland “one of the largest” storm […]