Tazewell County
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On March 30, 1938, a family of three to five tornadoes moved across central and west central Illinois during the afternoon. The worst damage from the outbreak occurred in South Pekin, where three city blocks were leveled and 250 homes were damaged or destroyed. Nine people were killed in South Pekin, two in Morton, one in Timewell (Brown County), and one in Astoria (Fulton County).

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