Images: Damage in the Wake of Friday Storms
See damage from Friday storms that moved through the suburbs of Chicago. Impacted towns included Elgin and Itasca.
Storms rolled through Itasca Friday afternoon, leaving damaged trees near Bryn Mawr Avenue at Elm Street in Itasca.
Colin O'Donnell/codonnell@dailyherald.com
Storms rolled through Itasca Friday afternoon, leaving damaged trees near Bryn Mawr Avenue at Elm Street in Itasca.
Colin O'Donnell/codonnell@dailyherald.com
Storms rolled through Itasca Friday afternoon, leaving damaged trees near Bryn Mawr Avenue at Elm Street in Itasca.
Colin O'Donnell/codonnell@dailyherald.com
Storms rolled through Itasca Friday afternoon, leaving damaged trees near Bryn Mawr Avenue at Elm Street in Itasca.
Colin O'Donnell/codonnell@dailyherald.com
Storms rolled through Itasca Friday afternoon, leaving damaged trees along Walnut Street in Itasca.
Kay Long/klong@dailyherald.com
Tree branches are down near the train station in Itasca after a severe storm moved through the area on Friday.
Bev Horne/borne@dailyherald.com
Rudy Castelan, employee at Tree Guys Pizzeria in Itasca, right, works with Itasca resident Joe Cedillo to move a limb off of Walnut Street after a severe storm moved through the area on Friday.
Bev Horne/borne@dailyherald.com
High winds brought down many branches and damaged homes in Itasca Friday evening.
John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
Bob Pfeifer uses a hand saw to remove branches that fell on the corner of his home near Willow and Division Streets in Itasca Friday.
John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
High winds brought down many branches and damaged some homes, like this one on Willow Street in Itasca Friday evening.
John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
Roof damage in Itasca after an intense storm moved through the area on Friday.
Bev Horne/borne@dailyherald.com
A brief intense storm moved through Itasca on Friday causing many trees to come down.
Bev Horne/borne@dailyherald.com
Katsunori Okada works at removing a fallen tree branch in Itasca after a storm moved through the area on Friday.
Bev Horne/borne@dailyherald.com
Limbs were knocked down as severe storms moved through Elgin, here at Edison Avenue and Larkin Avenue Friday afternoon.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
Trees and large branches were down along the Milwaukee West Line tracks near Itasca during the Friday evening rush, July 21, 2017. Outbound trains on the line delayed more than an hour. Inbound service blocked for several hours while trees and large branches were removed from the tracks.
COURTESY OF METRA
Trees and large branches were down along the Milwaukee West Line tracks near Itasca during the Friday evening rush, July 21, 2017. Outbound trains on the line delayed more than an hour. Inbound service blocked for several hours while trees and large branches were removed from the tracks.
COURTESY OF METRA
Firefighters said a commercial building on the 500 block of Bartlett Road sustained significant damage as a result of high winds. The roof surface was peeled back, and rooftop air conditioning units were displaced. The building sustained extensive water damage and was closed to the public.
John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
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