WOOD DALE, Ill. (AP) – One person was killed and up to 20 injured on Sunday when a tent blew off its moorings during a brief storm that brought high winds and hail to a festival in a suburb of Chicago.
Art Woods, a city council member from the suburb of Wood Dale, said that in addition to the death, three people were seriously injured. No other details of the fatality were immediately released.
The incident happened at about 2:40 p.m. when high winds and hail ripped the tent from its moorings, said Craig Celia, a spokesman for Wood Dale, which is about 25 miles northwest of Chicago. The remainder of the festival’s final day was cancelled, he said.
Photos of the scene showed police and fire officials holding up a sheet over a body and chairs, tables and other debris strewn on the grass near where the tent collapsed.
Tracy Anderson, whose husband is a member of a band that was scheduled to perform there Sunday, said her husband witnessed the huge tent blow up in the air and land.