Images: #TBT Gallery looks back at suburban flooding
People of the Northwest suburbs know flooding all too well. The floods of 1967 and 1979 wreaked havoc and cost homeowners millions of dollars to put their lives back together again. Residents in Des Plaines faced sandbag duty as they struggled to keep the Des Plaines River from entering their basements. The Des Plaines River runs 95-miles through four Illinois counties.
Daily Herald photographers captured the turmoil as residents struggled to save their homes and personal processions.
The rain was followed by sizzling, muggy heat which caused highways to buckle around the suburbs.
Fun fact: On April 13-14, 1987, storms dumped 9.35 inches of rain on us, and by the end of August 1987, the amount of rain tallied to 17.10 inches, making it the all-time wettest month in the Chicago area.
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