One dead and 20 injured after severe weather hits the Midwest

Severe winds, storms and reports of tornadoes left damage in several cities over the weekend

(Associated Press)

Severe weather devastated the Midwest on Sunday, killing one person after a tent collapsed at the Wood Dale Prairie Fest in Chicago.

More than 20 people were injured at the festival, which took place in a Chicago suburb, after storms hit the city around 2:45pm, the Chicago Tribune reported.

"The clouds were kinda giving me a sign that it was going to be a bad storm. We we're going to go on the Giant Drop but then we saw lightning. We went on a different ride and then it started hailing," Bella Salgado told the paper. The four-day festival was then cancelled due to the severe weather.

Officials investigate after a fatal tent collapse at the Prairie Fest in Wood Dale, Illinois. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune/Associated Press)

Festival-goers are evacuated from Lollapalooza Music Festival on Sunday 2 August 2015. (Associated Press)

In the city, a crowd was evacuated from Lollapalooza Music Festival due to storms approaching the Grant Park in Chicago. Nearly 50,000 attendees left and returned, Lollapalooza management told the Chicago Sun-Times.

In Michigan, 70 mphs winds hit Traverse city, cancelling the city's film festival. More than 90,000 people were also left without power during the storm, WZZM-13 reported.