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Lightning and heavy rain were part of severe weather that swept through Decatur on Monday night. UPDATE 9:30 P.M. A severe storm system swept across Central Illinois on Monday evening, sending several counties into shelter mode. The National Weather Service at Lincoln issued tornado warnings for several counties, including Macon, throughout the evening. It reported that a confirmed tornado was spotted at 6:15 p.m. near Mechanicsburg, 6:35 p.m. over Niantic and 6:42 p.m. near Harristown. The extent of damage across the region was not immediately clear Monday night. A severe thunderstorm watch expired at 9 p.m. Isolated thunderstorms are possible on Tuesday, Thursday afternoon and again from Saturday afternoon through Sunday, the weather service said. The risk of severe storms is low during this time, though lightning hazards exist. ....
Lightning and heavy rain were part of severe weather that swept through Decatur on Monday night. UPDATE 9:30 P.M. A severe storm system swept across Central Illinois on Monday evening, sending several counties into shelter mode. The National Weather Service at Lincoln issued tornado warnings for several counties, including Macon, throughout the evening. It reported that a confirmed tornado was spotted at 6:15 p.m. near Mechanicsburg, 6:35 p.m. over Niantic and 6:42 p.m. near Harristown. The extent of damage across the region was not immediately clear Monday night. A severe thunderstorm watch expired at 9 p.m. Isolated thunderstorms are possible on Tuesday, Thursday afternoon and again from Saturday afternoon through Sunday, the weather service said. The risk of severe storms is low during this time, though lightning hazards exist. ....
4 hours ago in Local Photo: Shutterstock Just after the U.S. Census numbers – not community-level numbers, by the way – came out Monday, some central and southern Illinois statehouse members immediately blamed the supermajority party. “Jobs – or the lack thereof – and property taxes,” said State Rep. Dave Severin (R-Benton) of the main reasons rural Illinois is bleeding out. “When a person loses their job (because their employer has moved out of Illinois) they find that they can get a job in another state, they ask them not to report on Facebook what they are going to pay in property taxes, because they don’t want anyone else to know.” ....