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A few more Grazulis references

Hey, when you get a chance, could you get me a few more refs for my draft? I'm specifically looking for the following.

F3 and F4 tornadoes in Cook County from the March 28, 1920 Palm Sunday outbreak in Illinois,
1781 Chicago Portage tornado that Grazulis might record,
May 22, 1855 Des Plaines, Illinois tornado (may be marked as Jefferson, Illinois, see Draft:Tornadoes in Chicago#1855 (Jefferson/Des Plaines)),
April 7, 1948 tornado in Northwest Indiana,
June 13, 1976 Lemont, Illinois F4 tornado,
April 21, 1967 Oak Lawn F4 tornado,
March 12, 1976 F3 tornado in DuPage and Cook County.

I could probably get by without these but they'd make getting the article in ship-shape a lot quicker. Thanks! Departure– (talk) 15:09, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Departure– I can get these summaries to you this weekend (my book is being borrowed by a friend for a class this week). I'll try to remember, but feel free to shoot me a talk page message as a reminder on Saturday or Sunday. The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 22:21, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Also, if it's not too much trouble, it turns out there's a lot more that don't have much information online. If it's not too much trouble, can you get summaries for:

May 25, 1896
April 7, 1929
May 1, 1933
April 18, 1955
May 26, 1955
August 30, 1958

All in Chicago. Your help would be greatly appreciated, even just fetching non-free sources. Thank you! Departure– (talk) 17:28, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page watcher) I assume you mean the Cook County F3 for the 1896 tornado? In the 1990 edition, he writes: IL | May 25, 1896 | 0150 | 0k | inj | 400y | 4.5m | F3 | COOK-Moved due E from the Leyden-Maine town line to the Jefferson-Niles area.The tornado passed through the towns of Park Ridge, Edison Park and Norwood Park. The worst destruction was on the highest ground, the Canfield-on-the-Hill section of Edison Park. In all, six homes were destroyed and 30 others were said to be beyond repair. $100,000. This is located on page 70. I do know the newer version is refined, so the details may be off. — E_F⁵ 17:35, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Significant Tornadoes: A chronology of events - Public domain?

Odd question. On my online copy of the Significant Tornadoes: A chronology of events Volume 2 of Significant Tornadoes: 1880-1989 published in 1990 (this is the tornado book), there's a disclaimer on page three that notes "all written material herein is in the public domain". Hypothetically, if all the images in the book are blacked out, would the entire book be able to be transferred to WikiSource? I know nothing about it, so asking you. — E_F⁵ 19:59, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think so based on that statement in a published book? @Rlandmann: would you concur? The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 20:13, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Here's the online copy if y'all want to confirm that. Maybe for once the Wx-Wiki community will actually have a good thing happen related to copyright! E_F⁵ 20:15, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

From a copyright standpoint -- yes, absolutely. The text is completely free. Whether it's within scope for WikiSource is another question that's outside my experience, but it looks OK to me. I'd still be asking over there though. --Rlandmann (talk) 21:16, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]