I appreciate that radar map you posted. It shows the situation better than any other map I've seen so far. At least.......I think I appreciate it. But now I can see that it does indeed look like the St. Louis area may get some of this stuff, sigh. Perhaps ignorance really IS bliss. ;-)
That loop shows that cell having gone through the SE corner of McLean County, and then right through Paxton (Ford) and Iroquois counties (Watseka).
I grew up in Pontiac (Livingston Co.). Yikes!
It's gonna slice through NW Indiana and maybe make it up into Southern MI!