You Heard it, Right?

In a sure sign of Spring, the village resumed testing its warning sirens at 10 a.m. this morning.

The sirens are tested on the first Tuesday of each month from March through October. They sound whenever the presence of a funnel cloud or tornado is confirmed. They do not transmit an all-clear signal, according to the village website. 

"The primary purpose of the sirens is to alert those who are outdoors to seek shelter," the site states. "Those who are inside of buildings normally receive weather information from television and radio broadcasts."

Siren locations are: DGFD Station 2, 5420 Main St.; O'Brien Park, 6905 Dunham Road; Village Hall, 801 Burlington Ave.; Wallingford Park, 4113 Elm St.; the Downer Grove Golf Course, 2420 Haddow Ave.; the westbound lane of I-88 at Downers Drive; and I-355 at 63rd Street.