(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- President Biden has issued a disaster declaration for the heavy flooding in mid-September in the south suburbs.
Calumet City was hammered by the storm that the city engineer, Ken Chastain, said was unprecedented.
"A force of storm that was so significant that the Illinois water service calls it a 500-year event," he added.
Besides Calumet City, Burnham, Dolton, South Holland and Harvey were among the communities that were impacted most.
The storm caused nine and a half inches of rain in two and a half hours. The federal disaster declaration follows state and county disaster declarations.
According to a statement from the White House, those impacted can get “grants for temporary housing and home repairs, low-cost loans to cover uninsured property losses, and other programs to help individuals and business owners recover from the effects of the disaster.”
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