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An Illinois Department of Transportation road closure map showed the following roads in the East St. Louis area and Cahokia Heights were closed at 3 p.m. due to flooding: Interstate 255 southbound ...
Flooding from a heavy rainstorm Tuesday in southwest Illinois damaged houses and cars, closed roads, forced the evacuation of a nursing home and eroded part of a levee, according to community leaders.
Mascoutah and Belleville fire departments are on the scene of an area near Illinois Route 158 and Keck Road for a water rescue, according to the St. Clair County Emergency Management Agency. 11:46 ...
Surface weather features in northeastern Illinois on July 2, 2023. Maps are valid 3 hours apart and begin at 4:00 AM CDT. During the overnight and early morning hours of July 2, a nearly stationary, weak warm front extended across parts of northern Illinois from roughly Peoria east-northeast toward the southern Chicago metropolitan area.
Flood control dams were constructed along the creek in 1978 within the Ned Brown Forest Preserve near Elk Grove Village, Illinois, creating the 590-acre (2.4 km 2) Busse Lake. A diversion tunnel was constructed approximately 1.6 miles (2.6 km) north of the confluence with the Des Plaines River, at a point where the two streams are separated by ...
The Meeting of the Great Rivers Scenic Route extends for 33.0 miles (53.1 km) in southwestern Illinois, travelling through the floodplain of the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers. The route has been officially designated as a National Scenic Byway by the Federal Highway Administration. The route coincides with a portion of the Great River Road.
The St. Clair County Emergency Management Agency advised drivers to avoid Illinois 15 at Belleville West Parkway because both eastbound and westbound lanes were flooded as of 3:54 p.m.
Authorities report he died after being stranded on a flooded road, and was found in at least three feet of water. [61] Flooding also affected the communities on the Baraboo River. The town of North Freedom had all but one road into town closed because of flooding. The flooding forced the closure of the Mid-Continent Railway Museum. [62] [63]