The Kankakee River Basin commission on a flood mitigation mission recently installing a new river monitoring system.

WILMINGTON, Ill. (CBS) – Residents along the Kankakee River in Will County, nearly 50 miles southwest of Chicago, are still dealing with the ice jam that poses a flooding risk to nearby properties.

WILMINGTON, Ill. (CBS) -- Will County emergency officials are stepping up their efforts to break up ice jams on the Kankakee River – nearly 50 miles southwest of Chicago. The Will County Emergency ...

WILMINGTON, Ill. (WLS) -- People living along the Kankakee River in suburban Wilmington have been watching nervously as a massive ice jam pushes closer to their homes on Tuesday. Some houses are ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A Flash Flood Warning was downgraded Saturday in the Wilmington area after an ice jam broke on the Kankakee River Friday. Most ice jams have cleared between the city of Wilmington and ...

Officials in Will County say that new steps are being taken to address an ice jam that is causing “historic flooding” along the Kankakee River this week. According to officials, Constellation Energy ...

The dilapidated State Line Bridge, which spans the Kankakee River but serves no function other than to cause problems on the river, will be removed soon, the river’s government commission learned ...

Work will begin soon on removing a major source of logjams by U.S. 41 on the Kankakee River near Schneider. About 30 narrowly spaced wooden supports from an abandoned Norfolk Southern Railroad bridge ...

Jody Melton is driving along the Kankakee River, watching and waiting to see how bad the flooding will become before the waters recede. "This is a record flood," he said. Melton, executive director or ...

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