{"id":354412,"date":"2026-08-11T14:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T19:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/flights-grounded-in-chicago-power-knocked-out-as-severe-weather-pounds-illinois-indiana"},"modified":"2026-08-11T14:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T19:09:12","slug":"flights-grounded-in-chicago-power-knocked-out-as-severe-weather-pounds-illinois-indiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/flights-grounded-in-chicago-power-knocked-out-as-severe-weather-pounds-illinois-indiana","title":{"rendered":"Flights grounded in Chicago, energy knocked out as extreme climate kilos Illinois, Indiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB \">CHICAGO &#8212; <\/span>Severe weather cut power Tuesday in the Chicago area and northwestern Indiana as perilous storms pummeled the region, darkening the sky and carrying extreme wind gusts across state lines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Tornado warning sirens blared in Illinois and Indiana, and all flights were stopped by late morning at Chicago&#8217;s two major airports. There were numerous reports of wind gusts of 80 mph (128 kph) or more at personal weather stations, with trees blown down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cThese are dangerous storms!\u201d the National Weather Service said by late morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">More than 575,000 customers lost electricity in Illinois and Indiana, according to <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/poweroutage.us\/\">poweroutage.us.<\/a> Lake County, Indiana, was especially hit hard.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/wireStory\/flights-grounded-chicago-power-knocked-severe-weather-pounds-135551987\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO &#8212; Severe weather cut power Tuesday in the Chicago area and northwestern Indiana as perilous storms pummeled the region, darkening the sky and carrying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":352871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[548,30837,30840,3711,1314,7028,3840,30839,30841,7043,30838],"class_list":["post-354412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chicago","tag-climate-lower-energy","tag-contiguous-united-states","tag-electrical-energy","tag-energy","tag-illinois","tag-indiana","tag-lake-county","tag-midwestern-united-states","tag-nationwide-climate-service","tag-northwestern-indiana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354412"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354414,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354412\/revisions\/354414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}