A tornado touched down near Chicago s main airport on Wednesday night, sending travelers scrambling for cover and disrupting hundreds of flights as video showed the funnel cloud forming.
Trees were uprooted and rooftops were ripped off, as the series of tornadoes left a path of destruction on Wednesday amid the meteorological chaos across Chicago and northeastern Illinois.
Thousands of travelers were forced to take shelter on the ground floor of Chicago's O'Hare International Airport a tornado was spotted Wednesday evening.