Event narrative (NOAA)
Flash flooding or significant flooding was reported across most of Cook County, including street closures due to flooding, basement flooding and creek, stream and river flooding. In the Albany Park neighborhood in Chicago, the North Branch of the Chicago River overflowed its banks and flooded about 340 homes. In Skokie, five people were rescued from three vehicles trapped in flood waters at the Golf Road viaduct and eight people were rescued from five vehicles stalled out under the Skokie Boulevard viaduct. Silver Creek flooded streets and basements near Hillside. Significant flooding was reported in Des Plaines including multiple vehicles submerged or abandoned. Significant flooding was also reported in Park Ridge where at least 8 people had to be rescued from their vehicles which we
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Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.