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After the skies dumped rain for days on end and so much snow that communities up and down the state had to scramble for more road salt, it likely won’t come as a shock that 2008 was one of the wettest years ever in Illinois. The 50.86 inches of precipitation that fell in Chicago was more than in any year since records started being kept in 1871, National Weather Service meteorologist Amy Seeley said Thursday.
