{"id":83620,"date":"2026-06-13T08:43:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T12:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83620"},"modified":"2026-06-13T08:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T12:43:11","slug":"virgin-mary-statue-left-standing-after-tornado-hits-chicago-suburb-resident-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/virgin-mary-statue-left-standing-after-tornado-hits-chicago-suburb-resident-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Mary Statue Left Standing After Tornado Hits Chicago Suburb, Resident Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>NBC 5 Chicago:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/media.nbcchicago.com\/2026\/06\/1_10-WMAQ-5P-M-F-_-PKG-CHI-Bartlett-Storm-Damage-June-12.png?resize=218%2C123&amp;quality=85&amp;strip=all\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n<p>A statue of the Virgin Mary was left untouched when\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/where-did-tornadoes-hit-in-illinois-and-indiana-what-we-know-so-far\/3947958\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/where-did-tornadoes-hit-in-illinois-and-indiana-what-we-know-so-far\/3947958\/\">an EF-1 tornado<\/a>\u00a0ripped through a suburban Bartlett neighborhood, even uprooting multiple trees and scattering debris nearby.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy kids playpen, everything, pergola, completely knocked out, and the statue of the Virgin Mary is still there. It didn\u2019t move an inch,\u201d resident Luis Lopez told NBC Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From NBC 5 Chicago: A statue of the Virgin Mary was left untouched when\u00a0an EF-1 tornado\u00a0ripped through a suburban Bartlett.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83622,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83620\/revisions\/83622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}