Dam fails in Illinois as US states hit by heavy rain and tornadoes
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A woman in Indiana died after a tree fell onto a home.
Thunderstorms with heavy rain and tornadoes have hit the Chicago area and elsewhere in the US Midwest, overtopping a dam in southern Illinois and cutting power to hundreds of thousands.