{"id":517371,"date":"2026-03-11T16:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T16:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/517371\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T16:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T16:34:08","slug":"severe-weather-batters-us-including-this-tornado-in-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/517371\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe weather batters US including this tornado in Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Here in Kankakee, Illinois, about 60 miles south of Chicago, emergency crews are assessing the damage after a tornado touched down on 10 March, according to the BBC\u2019s reporting partner, CBSNews.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The event was part of a string of severe weather that stretched from Texas to Michigan, causing the deaths of two people in Indiana on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The severe storms brought rain, hail, damaging winds and intense tornadoes, according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here in Kankakee, Illinois, about 60 miles south of Chicago, emergency crews are assessing the damage after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-517371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}