Rivers Flood Streets In Western, Northern Illinois
Western and northern Illinois residents are watching the rivers as flooding continues to threaten streets Tuesday morning.
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Western and northern Illinois residents are watching the rivers as flooding continues to threaten streets Tuesday morning.
Flood waters are steadily receding along the Kankakee Rriver as the ice covering the ground is more like slush. Many who made the choice to evacuate are back in their homes, but there are still a few cautionary measures in place on the river.
Emergency officials warned that melting ice can be unpredictable. With more headed down river, they are urging caution.
Emergency agencies are advising residents to evacuate the Phelan Acres subdivision in Wilmington due to rising water and ice moving through the Kankakee River.
According to the National Weather Service, the warning affects parts of Lake County near Russell and Gurnee.
A water main break caused a watery and frozen mess early Friday morning in Gary,, Indiana.
Florence has already killed 15 people in two states.
More than 360 people were rescued from in the city from the rising waters.
Despite the overcast skies, there are lots of people walking outside near the lakefront but they stuck close to the stairs.
The pop-up storms created a free for all on the way to O'Hare Monday. Some people opted to get out of their cars in an effort to get to the airport on time for their flights.
More heavy rain is coming to the Midwest, an area already waterlogged after powerful weekend storms. Tens of millions face the threat of flooding, with forecasters predicting the storm system will stall over the region.
Torrential downpours, like the ones that happened Friday night, could cause flooding.
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Hurricane Lane dipped from a powerful Category 3 storm to a still-strong Category 2 on Friday as it churned slowly north-northwest near the Hawaiian Islands.
After two historic floods, and years of promises, people living in the Albany Park neighborhood can rest easy now that an 18-foot wide stormwater diversion tunnel is complete.
Extreme, potentially dangerous weather is affecting large portions of the U.S. this week, with flooding in the East and heat advisories in effect across the West.
McHenry residents are angry after their homes flooded during the severe thunderstorms Tuesday night.
Yellow Line trains were halted for about two hours Friday morning, due to flooding in the northern suburbs.
What Mother Nature sent streaming into Chicago, workers waded through and tried to send it elsewhere.
At a gas station at 47th and Central, a car got stuck in the high water and several people helped to push it into a nearby parking lot.
There have been several calls for assistance for cars stuck in streets with high water.
The National Weather Service has issued flood warnings for several counties around Illinois.
Rain reached record levels across the Chicagoland area Monday.
The clouds and rain rolled through the city quickly Monday afternoon. CBS 2's Jeremy Ross was out in the thick of the storms.
Strong winds will result in waves of 12 to 18 feet.
A Southwest Airlines flight landed safely at Midway International Airport on Monday morning despite the nose-gear tires blowing out.
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Investigators are probing whether Iranian hackers are behind this week's malicious cyber activity against water systems in Minnesota. If they are found to be the culprits, it would not be the first time.
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Chicago just barely made the top 20 in the American College of Sports Medicine's 2026 ranking of the country's fittest cities.
In a major turnaround in the opioid crisis, overdose deaths are falling across Chicago and Cook County.
Stella's Diner in Chicago's East Lakeview community has gone out of business.
A Wisconsin appeals court reversed a lower court ruling that had declared Act 10 unconstitutional, keeping the 2011 law limiting public workers' collective bargaining rights in place as unions prepare to appeal to the state Supreme Court.
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A Southwest Airlines flight landed safely at Midway International Airport on Monday morning despite the nose-gear tires blowing out.
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Shavonne Worthy said she visited her mother's grave at Oakridge-Glen Oaks Cemetery in Hillside and found an empty hole where the headstone had stood for nearly 10 years — and the cemetery's new owner told her it was removed intentionally.
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Thieves stole an ATM from a gas station in Chicago's Roseland community early Monday.
Two young men and a teenage boy were shot and wounded early Monday in Chicago's Park Manor community.
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