Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
The Chicago area, including Lake and McHenry counties, was hit hard by torrential rain that caused flash flooding in July 2017.
Chicago-area flooding
Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune
Richard DuBois watches as Mike Lesperance, highway commissioner for Nunda Township, arrives with hundreds of sandbags for residents on Riverside Drive West in the Orchard Heights subdivision of unincorporated McHenry County on July 18, 2017. 
