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Severe weather cut power to over half a million people in the Chicago area and northwestern Indiana as perilous thunderstorms and extreme wind gusts pummeled the region on Tuesday.
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Severe weather cut power to over half a million people in the Chicago area and northwestern Indiana as perilous thunderstorms and extreme wind gusts pummeled the region on Tuesday.
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Severe weather has cut power in the Chicago area and northwestern Indiana
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AIPROPX has consolidated 3 reports from 3 outlets into a single canonical entry on “Severe weather pounds Illinois and Indiana, knocking out power as tornado sirens blare.” Every covered outlet is based in US.
The earliest report in this entry came from ABC News (Aug 11, 2026, 17:32 UTC); the most recent came from PBS NewsHour (Aug 11, 2026, 20:31 UTC).
Comparing the wording across sources, 5 named entities are referenced by multiple outlets and the phrase recurring most across the coverage is “severe weather”.
2 statements are carried by only one outlet within this set and are not echoed by the others.
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AIPROPX — “Severe weather pounds Illinois and Indiana, knocking out power as tornado sirens blare” · https://www.aipropx.com/story/d1d6d90f55f003d5b5a5692625013c1a
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