The city of Chicago is turning to plants and trees to help address issues with stormwater flooding, which has been a repeated problem this summer.This week, Chicago's South and West sides were hit hard by flooding,

The Southwest Side of Chicago is still recovering from flood damage over the weekend, with homeowners filing reports with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, trying to get money to help rebuild.

Heavy rainfall wreaked havoc on local roads in northwest Indiana on Monday night, with some even closing down to traffic because of standing water.

H omeowners on Chicago's Southwest and West sides said one historic flooding fiasco this summer was bad enough, but then this past weekend, they were hit with a second. Since Aug. 16, the city's 311 service request line received more than 5,600 calls for flooding.

Chicagoans and suburbanites could see damaging storms pass through the area once again Monday night, bringing strong winds, lightning and flood-causing rain.

The sensors, which are being deployed over the next 18 months, use sonar technology to detect when water levels rise and create real-time flood maps for different city agencies.

The Southwest Side of Chicago is still recovering from flood damage over the weekend, with homeowners filing reports with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, trying to get money to help rebuild.

A new initiative recently launched in Chicago is striving to predict urban flooding. Verizon, in conjunction with Chicago's Center for Neighborhood Technology and a Michigan-based startup, is equipping the city with technology that will give officials and residents alike the ability to track urban flooding in real time.

A progressive Chicago politician is facing backlash for galivanting around Nashville as her district was “devastated” by severe storms and heavy flooding.

Multiple rounds of storms pounded the Chicago area Monday afternoon, evening, and late night — prompting tornado and flash flood warnings, and causing flight and commuter train delays, power outages,