By John Jurgens Click here for updates on this story BELVIDERE, Illinois (WREX) — April 21, 1967 is a day many who lived in ...

The Belvidere tornado was not the only storm to cause damage in northern Illinois. An F-4 tornado struck Lake Zurich in Lake County, killing one person and injuring 100. Another significant ...

Two of the three F4 twisters hit Chicagoland and the combined death toll was in the dozens. Three inches of snow followed the ...

BELVIDERE, Illinois (WREX) — April 21, 1967 is a day many who lived in the Belvidere area remember all too well when a violent F-4 tornado carved a destructive path through the City of Murals.

Chicagoland saw two of the F4 tornadoes, one in Oak Lawn and another in Lake Zurich. A third F4 hit northern Illinois in the Rockford suburb of Belvidere. Those three tornadoes killed a combined ...

The tornado carved a 30-mile path through northern Illinois, with winds of up to 200 mph at times leaving a trail of destruction from near Ashton and Franklin Grove to just south of Belvidere.