CHICAGO (WLS) — A system that was forecast to bring heavy rain to Chicago on Saturday is mainly missing the area, according to ABC7 AccuWeather Meteorologist Jaisol Martinez.<\/p>\n
ABC7 meteorologists initially issued an AccuWeather Alert for Saturday, but that alert has been dropped, as the flooding threat has reduced in the Chicago area.<\/p>\n
ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24\/7. Click here to watch<\/a><\/p>\n There was rain south of Interstate 80 on the radar around 5 a.m., and more light to moderate rain is expected throughout Saturday morning, mainly south, Martinez said.<\/p>\n Patchy drizzle could pop up anywhere around the Chicago area in the morning hours, and isolated downpour cannot be ruled out on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n The rain is no longer expected to significantly impact Saturday’s Chicago Air and Water Show<\/a> or the Chicago Bears game.<\/p>\n However, this week’s storms led to the cancellation of next weekend’s Gary Air Show. The organizers say the need for first responders to assist in the cleanup is more important than the show happening this year. They hope to be back next summer.<\/p>\n Saturday is expected to remain humid with highs in the low 80s. But ABC7 meteorologists are watching for a potential round of heavy rain late Saturday and into Sunday morning.<\/p>\n Possible storms could hit the Chicago area between 3 a.m. and 8 a.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n Once that morning rain moves out on Sunday, the rest of the day looks mostly dry with highs in the low 80s. Next week’s forecast offers limited rain chances, bringing some relief to areas hit hard by Tuesday’s storms<\/a>.<\/p>\n Residents who sustained storm damage Tuesday and Wednesday in Cook County are being asked to complete an online survey<\/a> by Aug. 24.<\/p>\n Cook County Radar<\/a> | DuPage County Radar<\/a> | Will County Radar<\/a> | Lake County Radar (IL)<\/a> | Kane County Radar<\/a> | Northwest Indiana Radar<\/a> Copyright \u00a9 2026 WLS-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (WLS) — A system that was forecast to bring heavy rain to Chicago on Saturday is mainly…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1002338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[401366,401365,960,293843,7123,8580,5386,1818,5313,42692,7160,187641,48927,99290],"class_list":["post-1002337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-401366","tag-air-and-water-show-weather","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-rain","tag-chicago-weather","tag-flooding","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-severe-weather","tag-weather-chicago","tag-weather-forecast","tag-weather-this-weekend","tag-weather-today","tag-weather-tomorrow"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117099489274448435","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1002338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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