Carpenters repair a roof torn from one of two buildings at the Pine Grove Apartments in Waukegan during this morning's storm. (Chris Walker / Chicago Tribune)
Thunderstorms packing winds of 75 mph knocked out power to more than 791,000 ComEd customers this morning, the biggest outage from a storm in at least five years. >> Forecast
The Illinois Supreme Court today gave a thumbs up to Gov. Pat Quinn's showcase $31 billion public works program and the video poker that's supposed to help pay for it.