Images: Storm damage in the suburbs
A car took a direct hit from a tree in Tuesday nights storm on Elmhurst Avenue in Mount Prospect.
Bill Zars/bzars@dailyherald.com
Broken trees in Mount Prospect along Elmhurst Road Wednesday kept residents busy with cleanup.
Mark Welsh/mwelsh@dailyherald.com
Mount Prospect street crews work to clear fallen trees around Lincoln Street.
Mark Welsh/mwelsh@dailyherald.com
A tree is stripped down to nothing as residents work to clear the debris around Lincoln St. in Mount Prospect following Tuesday night storms.
Mark Welsh/mwelsh@dailyherald.com
Mount Prospect resident Bruce Stone clears debris Wednesday morning after tree limbs crashed on his house following last nights storm.
Mark Welsh/mwelsh@dailyherald.com
Trees down along Elmhurst Road in Mount Prospect Wednesday morning.
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Storm damage along Elmhurst Road Wednesday morning in Mount Prospect.
Mark Welsh/mwelsh@dailyherald.com
Fallen power lines and tree limbs on Candota Street prevented this owner from getting to his car Wednesday morning.
Mark Welsh/mwelsh@dailyherald.com
Trees rest on utility lines along Jefferson St. in Bensenville Wednesday following Tuesday night storms.
Daniel White/dwhite@dailyherald.com
Ognian Todorov clears debris along his 2nd Ct. residence in Bensenville Wednesday morning.
Daniel White/dwhite@dailyherald.com
Bensenville Park District field supervisor Steve Vanden Branden cleans up fencing material from a baseball field at Redmond Park.
Daniel White/dwhite@dailyherald.com
Ognian Todorov clears the road along his 2nd Court residence in Bensenville.
daniel white/Dwhite@dailyherald.com
Damaged bleachers rest along the center field fence of Redmond Park in Bensenville.
daniel white/Dwhite@dailyherald.com
Tom Czapiewski, left, helps Bill McKinley saw a tree that came down on Elmhurst Avenue in Mount Prospect.
Bill Zars/bzars@dailyherald.com
Aubrey Czapiewski looks at a woodpecker hole in a tree trunk snapped off in Tuesday nights storm on Elmhurst Avenue in Mount Prospect.
Bill Zars/bzars@dailyherald.com
Trees were torn apart on Gregory Avenue from Tuesday nights storm in Mount Prospect.
Bill Zars/bzars@dailyherald.com
George Olivares, left, and Mark Fleishman remove a tree from Kelli Garvanian Park in Vernon Hills Wednesday after storm damage caused by high winds Tuesday night around Lake County.
Gilbert R. Boucher II/gboucher@dailyherald.com
Storm damage on the 300 block of North Russell Street in Mount Prospect.
Tom Quinlan/tquinlan@dailyherald.com
Mundelein resident Tom Riddle lost two oak trees in Tuesday nights storm. He spent most of Wednesday morning cleaning up the mess in his Loch Lomond subdivision.
Paul Valade/pvalade@dailyherald.com
The trunk of an Oak tree is all that remains standing at the home of Tom Riddle on Banbury Road in the Loch Lomond subdivision in Mundelein.
Paul Valade/pvalade@dailyherald.com
Alice Marks of Wheaton looks over the damage after the top of a huge tree broke off in Tuesdays storm. Part of it went through her bedroom.
Bev Horne/bhorne@dailyherald.com
Storm damage along Willow Street in Wheaton after Tuesday nights storm.
Bev Horne/bhorne@dailyherald.com
Sue Cosgrove of Wheaton works at cleaning up the damage after the top of a huge tree broke off in Tuesdays storm and into her garage.
Bev Horne/bhorne@dailyherald.com
A branch of a tree came through the roof of Alice Marks bedroom in Wheaton after the top of a huge tree broke off in Tuesdays storm.
Bev Horne/bhorne@dailyherald.com
Storm damage in Mount Prospect following Tuesday nights storm.
Courtesy of Gina Marie Burck
Storm damage in Mount Prospect following Tuesday nights storm.
Courtesy of Gina Marie Burck
The roof was damaged at an office building on the 3000 block of Malmo Drive in Arlington Heights.
Photo courtesy of Stefani Szczechowski
Wind gusts up to 80 miles an hour damaged part of OHare International Airport.
Courtesy of ABC 7 Chicago
Lighting split a tree between two houses on North Russell Street in Mount Prospect, cutting power to both home.
Tom Quinlan/tquinlan@dailyherald.com
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