Articles filed under Flooding
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Lisle to receive nearly $2.9 million for flood reliefNov 14, 2014 12:00 am - Lisle will be able to purchase 13 houses that regularly flood and elevate six others, thanks to a nearly $2.9 million federal grant. Mayor Joe Broda said the village app...
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Lake Zurich board accepts flood planOct 21, 2014 5:31 am - Money remains the final hurdle to a final engineering plan devised to help residents in two flood-prone subdivisions on Lake Zurich's east side. Lake Zurich village boar...
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Lake County to receive FEMA moneyOct 14, 2014 1:01 am - Lake County will receive about $1.5 million from a federal agency to remove structures from flood-prone areas. The cash will come from the U.S. Department of Homeland Se...
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DuPage considering Elmhurst plan to use quarryOct 07, 2014 1:01 am - DuPage County officials are trying to determine whether an Elmhurst quarry that helps keep Salt Creek inside its banks also should be used to prevent nearby homes from f...
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Long-awaited study of downtown Buffalo Grove releasedSep 05, 2014 5:30 am - Buffalo Grove late Thursday released an online link to a study that could help determine the fate of a controversial proposal for a massive development in the area curre...
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Buffalo Grove downtown study reignites debateSep 05, 2014 12:00 am - The public discussion of whether to build a “downtown Buffalo Grove” on the existing village campus and golf course — largely dormant since the initial proposal in 2012 ...
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Flood control projects in Prospect Hts., Wheeling nearly doneSep 04, 2014 1:01 am - Flooding will probably never completely become a thing of the past in Mount Prospect. But the Levee 37 project along the Des Plaines River and the basins and pumping st...
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DuPage buys building for flood control effortAug 28, 2014 5:30 am - DuPage County is preparing for the next step in its ongoing work to alleviate flooding in Warrenville. County board members this week approved the purchase of a commerci...
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Bartlett, county officials tour $5 million project to ease floodingAug 28, 2014 1:01 am - After about two years of planning and construction, DuPage County officials on Thursday showed off a roughly $5 million project targeting flooding in Bartlett's southwes...
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Palatine Hills golf course experiences more floodingAug 26, 2014 5:00 am - Flooding that forced Palatine Hills Golf Course to close several holes over the weekend served as a reminder that plans to address the course's ongoing water problems ha...