Some roads are flooded and thousands are without power Sunday morning after overnight storms in the Chicago area.
A system bringing torrential rainfall and damaging winds moved through the area Saturday night into early Sunday morning, according to the National Weather Service.
A flood advisory was issued until noon Sunday for regions that saw the heaviest downpours. Those include Joliet, Elgin, Bolingbrook, Oak Forest, West Chicago, Chicago Heights and Orland Park, meteorologists said. Some of those areas saw between 3 and 4 inches of rain overnight.
There are also reports of flooding in Chicago, including a viaduct near 47th Street and Archer Avenue in Archer Heights and another at 95th and South Cottage Grove in Roseland.
As of 8 a.m. Sunday nearly 65,000 were without power, with 29