{"id":126797,"date":"2025-08-07T16:39:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T16:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/126797\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T16:39:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T16:39:19","slug":"chicago-cook-county-issue-disaster-proclamation-for-those-impacted-by-july-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/126797\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago, Cook County issue disaster proclamation for those impacted by July floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <a class=\"content__topic-link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"60\" height=\"60\" class=\"content__show-logo\" alt=\"chicago\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/assets\/show\/chicago\/logo-square-32.svg\"\/><br \/>\n          <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n    By<\/p>\n<p>              CBS Chicago  Team\n              <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__meta content__meta--timestamp \">\n          August 7, 2025 \/ 10:17 AM CDT<br \/>\n          \/ CBS Chicago\n        <\/p>\n<p>                  Chicago, Cook County issued disaster proclamation for July floods <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2c3ca346d22e58c5e0d513f7ab0c790d-0-1754579139014.png\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/video\/chicago-cook-county-issued-disaster-proclamation-for-july-floods\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>          Chicago, Cook County issued disaster proclamation for July floods<\/p>\n<p>          00:31<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Residents impacted by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/chicago-weather-flash-flood-warning-storms\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> last month&#8217;s floods due to storms and heavy rainfall<\/a> could see relief soon.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago and Cook County issued a disaster proclamation for the flooding from July 25 to 28.<\/p>\n<p>A line of thunderstorms brought sudden, heavy rain, with some areas seeing up to 6 inches fall in just a couple of hours\u2014leaving cars submerged and homes flooded.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the storms destroyed more than 100 homes. Several hundred more experienced major damage, and thousands more were affected.<\/p>\n<p>The disaster proclamation paves the way for more state and federal funds to assist with the recovery effort.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/search\/author\/cbs-chicago-team\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS Chicago  Team<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">The CBS Chicago team covers breaking news, weather, groundbreaking investigations, and dedicated community reporting<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__copyright\">\n      \u00a9 2025 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By CBS Chicago Team August 7, 2025 \/ 10:17 AM CDT \/ CBS Chicago Chicago, Cook County issued&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":126798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,8580,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-126797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-flooding","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114988474941250278","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126797","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=126797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}