CHICAGO (WLS) — More rain and storms are in the forecast for the Chicago area Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Heavy downpours and isolated storms are expected to continue Wednesday morning, ABC7 Accuweather Meteorologist Tracy Butler.<\/p>\n
ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24\/7. Click here to watch<\/a><\/p>\n The afternoon will see things warm up with some dry hours before more storms in the evening, Butler said.<\/p>\n Waves of storms in the evening could become severe, with the main threat being wind along with hail and flooding, Butler said.<\/p>\n The Storm Prediction Center has the entire Chicago area under a Level 2 risk for severe weather Tuesday.<\/p>\n Heavy storms moved through the north and northwest suburbs late Tuesday night.<\/p>\n This comes after a day of rain and storms on Tuesday. <\/a><\/p>\n Heavy storms moved through the north and northwest suburbs late Tuesday night into the early morning hours.<\/p>\n The storms led to heavy rain, lightning, flooding, and some downed trees.<\/p>\n In Zion, Route 173 is closed between Delaney and Kilbourne roads for reports of cars stuck in standing water.<\/p>\n Video from Elgin shows a large tree that crashed down on several vehicles at Chicago & Worth.<\/p>\n Elgin police warned people about multiple weather sirens due to the storm that was caused by 75 mph winds and golf ball size hail.<\/p>\n Non-stop heavy rain covered the north and northwest suburbs in Woodstock, as well, slowing down drivers, as water pooled on the streets.<\/p>\n Tuesday’s rain set a record at O’Hare Airport for April 14 with 2.43 inches of rain.<\/p>\n Cook County Radar<\/a> DuPage County Radar<\/a> Will County Radar<\/a> Lake County Radar (IL)<\/a> Kane County Radar<\/a> Northwest Indiana Radar<\/a> Copyright \u00a9 2026 WLS-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (WLS) — More rain and storms are in the forecast for the Chicago area Wednesday. Heavy downpours…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":730045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[302110,960,5462,293843,293846,7123,75685,35343,30886,24181,293842,23935,5386,1818,293845,88947,196487,42692,293844,48927],"class_list":["post-730044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-302110","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-news","tag-chicago-rain","tag-chicago-storms","tag-chicago-weather","tag-flash-flood","tag-flash-flood-warning","tag-flood-warning","tag-flood-watch","tag-flood-watch-chicago","tag-heavy-rain","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-is-it-going-to-rain","tag-radar-weather","tag-road-conditions","tag-weather-chicago","tag-weather-rain","tag-weather-today"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116409572256654796","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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