Severe storms, including a tornado, struck several Route 66 towns in Illinois. Here's the caption for Nancy Saul's photo above for the Lincoln Courier:
AmerenCilco employees set up roadblocks and assess damage along the southbound lane of Old Route 66 on Lincoln's north side. High winds snapped power poles and bent metal light standards to the ground from just north of the Moose Lodge to Krueger Elevator. The southbound lane of the route, which was draped with hot wires, was closed.
And here's an excerpt from the Lincoln paper's story:
The winds shortly after midnight snapped power poles and bent metal light poles on Old Route 66, leaving them and hot wires lying on the southbound section of the highway just north of the Moose Lodge on North Kickapoo Street all the way to Kruger Elevator.
"We had a nice light show in our back yard," said Linda Aper, who lives nearby in Mayfair subdivision.
There also were power outages in the Route 66 towns of McLean and Atlanta.
Here is the Springfield Journal-Register's story on the storms. Here is the Peoria Journal-Star's.