{"id":739899,"date":"2026-04-20T02:05:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/739899\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T02:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:05:16","slug":"chicago-weather-des-plaines-river-fox-river-floodwaters-impacting-homes-roads-in-north-suburbs-after-rounds-of-rainfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/739899\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago weather: Des Plaines River, Fox River floodwaters impacting homes, roads in north suburbs after rounds of rainfall"},"content":{"rendered":"

LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill. (WLS) — Some communities in Illinois were seeing river levels rise Sunday as flooding concerns<\/a> continue. Some are expected to hit a major flood stage overnight into Monday.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, conditions were dry Sunday night, but it is very cold with Freeze Warnings and Frost Advisories across the Chicago area. Temperatures overnight will drop into the 20s in some areas.<\/p>\n

People in parts of the area are bracing for rivers to hit their highest points. Flooding has been happening for days.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, at least eight tornadoes<\/a> have been confirmed in northern Illinois during Friday night’s storms<\/a>, the National Weather Service said this weekend.<\/p>\n

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Lake County, Illinois officials say water levels remain high in the Fox and Des Plaines rivers. Dry weather expected this week should give impacted neighbors some relief.<\/p>\n

Floodwaters still flowed Sunday night, with homeowners working to move it out and away from their homes The Lake County Stormwater Management Commission says the Des Plaines River could climb before it crests.<\/p>\n

“We’ve watched it come up to the barricades here a couple of days ago, and then it went back and now it’s coming back again and they say it’s going to rise even more because of the rains up north, up in Wisconsin,” Lincolnshire resident Sandy Didewig said.<\/p>\n

Didewig’s Lincolnshire home is feet away from rising flood waters.<\/p>\n

Officials say the Des Plaines River could reach major flood status and is expected to peak Monday.<\/p>\n

A roadway leading into River Shire Park has been closed to cars and pedestrians, for now, but neighbors found other ways to get around.<\/p>\n

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Water levels on Londonderry Lane reached as high as a foot and a half.<\/p>\n

“The top of the fire hydrant over there was pretty much submerged all the way to the top of the fire hydrant. So I saw some carp swimming around,” Lincolnshire resident Chris Nielsen said.<\/p>\n

In Antioch, flood waters created more dangerous conditions after firefighters were called out to rescue a couple trapped in their home Saturday.<\/p>\n

And in Algonquin, where the Fox River is possibly days away from peaking, rising waters levels have creeped onto a homeowner’s yard, which was now surrounded by sandbags.<\/p>\n

With the Fox River expected to reach historic flood levels, leaders in Nunda Township are looking for volunteers to help make sandbags. That will take place starting at 7 a.m. Monday at the Nunda Township Road District building.<\/p>\n

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