The National Weather Service confirmed Tuesday that at least five tornadoes touched down in the Chicagoland area Monday night during a powerful severe weather event. Read More

and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has reported a significant decline in the rate of accidents resulting in injuries per vehicle miles traveled. Rebuild Illinois has also put ... Read More

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A dam near the town of Nashville, Ill., was in imminent danger of failure after heavy rain. A woman in Indiana died after a tree fell onto a home as storms hit the Midwest. CHICAGO (AP) - ... Read More

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WAYNE CO., Ill. (WFIE) - A section of I-64 in southern Illinois is now called the Sean Riley Memorial Highway. Sean Riley is the Wayne County Deputy shot and killed in the line of duty back in ... Read More

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Heavy rain across the St. Louis region prompted evacuations across the St. Louis region Tuesday.Around 9 a.m. the Emergency Management Agency in Washington County, Illinois, reported that a secondary ... Read More

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Torrential rainfall and '?impending'? dam failures prompted evacuation orders amid flooding in southern Illinois. Authorities caution more flooding possible. Read More

Severe storms in the Midwest have overtopped a dam in southern Illinois and left the Chicago area cleaning up. Read More

The dam at the Nashville City Reservoir in Nashville, Illinois, is in "imminent" danger of failure, according to the Washington County Emergency Management Agency. The agency has asked residents ... Read More

Hundreds of people in a southern Illinois town were ordered to evacuate Tuesday as water rolled over the top of a dam, just one perilous result of severe weather that ... Read More

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Floodwaters across the St. Louis and Metro East region forced numerous high-trafficked roads to close Tuesday.Below are the confirmed closures we know about so far.MoDOT closed the inside lanes of ... Read More

Heavy rain across the St. Louis region prompted evacuations across the St. Louis region Tuesday.Around 9 a.m. the Emergency Management Agency in Washington County, Illinois, reported that a secondary ... Read More

NASHVILLE, Ill. - Emergency officials have ordered evacuations Tuesday in Nashville, Illinois after widespread flooding due to concerns with the Nashville dam. Video from FOX 2 news crews show ... Read More

The national weather service has issued a flash flood warning for southwestern Madison County, Monroe, and St Clair Counties on . Read More

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Severe storms in the Midwest have overtopped a dam in southern Illinois and left the Chicago area cleaning up. Officials say a reservoir dam failed near the Illinois community of ... Read More

Thunderstorms with heavy rains and possible tornadoes rattled the Chicago area, toppling a large tree onto a home in suburban Norridge. (AP Video: Teresa Crawford) Read More

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An arrest has been made in connection with an expressway shooting on the southbound side of Interstate 57 near 115th Street. Read More

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Thunderstorms with heavy rain and tornadoes have hit the Chicago area and elsewhere in the US Midwest, overtopping a dam in southern Illinois and cutting power to hundreds of thousands. A woman in ... Read More

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Water overtopped a dam near Nashville, Illinois, sending first responders to the flooded ... Additional heavy rain was in the forecast. An 11-mile stretch of Interstate 64 in the Nashville area was ... Read More

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A commercial vehicle was reported to be underwater in the area. Additionally, U.S. Highway 50 in Lebanon, Illinois, between State Route 4 and Belleville, Illinois, has been closed due to the flooding. Read More