Illinois
Southern Illinois Food Insecurity Summit held at John A. Logan College
WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Ill. (KFVS) – Imagine not having enough food to feed your family–it’s a reality for folks in every community across the United States, including here in the Heartland.
A summit held Tuesday at John A. Logan College is working to end food insecurity in the area.
Numbers from Feeding America show food insecurity affects approximately 13,000 children across southern Illinois.
Jennifer Paulson is working to change that by supplying food and teaching sustainable farming methods through the non-profit Food Works.
”That can look like a lot of things: workshops for farmers, farmers markets, food hubs, and then the snap and link program at farmers markets across southern Illinois,” Paulson said.
She told us the fourth annual Southern Illinois Food Security Summit helps bring organizations and non-profits together to network and ensure crucial needs are met as the hunger fight continues.
”It really takes all these groups working together and coming at it from different angles,” she said.
Food Works recently launched a new mobile farmers market to help families in southern Illinois communities that don’t have easy access to a grocery store.
”It essentially is a farmers market on wheels. So all the food groups you expect to see at a farmers market–fresh produce, local meat, dairy, baked goods, all those things,” Paulson said. “And this vehicle lets us take that market on the road to the communities that need it.”
Elizabeth Deruntz, the deputy director of Food Works, said this is a great way to come up with new ideas to fight hunger in the heartland.
”It’s wonderful to meet with people who are like-minded about sourcing food and getting food to more food to people in our region. It is a regional struggle and we need to find new and interesting ways to work together,” she said.
For more information on how you can help fight hunger in southern Illinois, visit https://www.feedsi.org/.
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PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — Multiple rounds of severe storms impacted central Illinois on Wednesday bringing damaging wind gusts and very heavy rain. Our area was sparred from the worst of the tornadoes, but areas south of I-72 were not so fortunate with damage to homes and injuries reported.
An outflow boundary from our morning storms struggled to get any further north than highway 136, which was about 30 miles south of what was anticipated early this morning. This kept the risk of strong tornadoes just south of our local region, though we still had plenty of rain and instances of large hail and gusty winds roll through central Illinois.
The worst of the wind came with the storms in the morning. As the severe storms moved through the area they produced measured gust of 60-70 mph with localized gusts estimated to be around 80 mph. The winds resulted in tree, powerline, and structural damage from Knox through McLean County.
Storm Reports
Galesburg – Tree and power line damage
Williamsfield – Roof partially torn off building
Princeville – Tree damage
Dunlap – 60 mph wind gust
Bellevue – 60 mph wind gust
Germantown Hills – Trees down
Roanoke – 60 mph wind gust
El Paso – Power poles snapped
El Paso – Multiple semis and campers rolled on I-39
Gidley – 70 mph wind gust
Chenoa – Semi rolled on I-55
Dunlap – 1.0″ size hail
Metamora – 1.0″ size hail
Armington – 1.0″ size hail
Rain reports
West Peoria – 4.37″
Lexington – 4.00″
West Peoria – 3.98″
Washington – 3.97″
East Peoria – 3.47″
Dunlap – 3.40″
Goodfield – 2.47″
Towanda – 2.43″
Peoria (PIA) – 2.24″
Lewistown – 2.20″
Galesburg – 1.84″
Chillicothe – 1.52″
Pontiac – 1.27″
Historic tree dating back to Abraham Lincoln damaged in Springfield
It may be the last living tree standing when Abraham Lincoln and his family lived in the Springfield neighborhood from 1844 to 1861.
More than 30,000 Illinois residents reported power outages Wednesday morning amid severe storms and destructive winds.
The National Weather Service forecast two rounds of severe weather throughout the day, issuing a tornado watch early Wednesday morning across central Illinois.
Where were power outages reported in Illinois?
More than 35,000 of the more than 5.8 million customers tracked on PowerOutage.com reported outages Wednesday, as of noon.
The majority of these outages were concentrated in west-central Illinois in Warren, Henderson and Woodford counties.
More than 93% of the customers tracked in Henderson County and nearly 60% of those in Warren County were impacted by outages.
Less widespread outages were also reported in DeKalb, Mercer, Knox, Menard, Jefferson and Gallatin counties.
Electric service company Amaren was by far the most impacted utility provider, followed Commonwealth Edison Company and Corn Belt Energy Corporation.
Illinois power outage map
Report power outages in Illinois
Illinois residents can report power outages in their area at PowerOutage.com.
Illinois power outage tracker
To track where power outages have been reported and where they have been restored, follow the USA Today power outage tracker.
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Central Illinois weather radar
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