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Teams have been moving throughout the area after Chicago flooding earlier this month, gathering reports of storm damage. Some were in Cicero Wed.
Federal officials are surveying damage in the first step to sending federal aid to home and business owners. A July 2 storm flooded thousands of homes on Chicago’s West Side, suburban Cicero, Stickney and Berwyn.
Illinois health officials reported 81 more deaths from COVID-19 as vaccine distribution slowly picks up. The Illinois Department of Public Health announced 3,751 new cases of COVID-19 Wednesday. Over 80,000 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours. Illinois still had 2,931 people hospitalized with COVID-19, including 591 in the ICU and 300 people on ventilators. The state's positivity rate remains low, however. The preliminary seven-day statewide positivity rate from Jan. 20 to Jan. 26 was 5.6%. The number of vaccines going into people's arms also is growing. The state reported 773,6...