The Lake Station City Council has unanimously adopted a new floodplain map just ahead of the Jan. 26 federal deadline. The ordinance allows residents who live in flood-prone areas to obtain ...

The maps show high-risk areas deemed susceptible ... As of June 30, just over 1,000 homes in Chicago have flood insurance policies through the National Flood Insurance Program.

At the top of that list is Chicago. FEMA’s maps show just 0.3% of Chicago’s more than 600,000 properties inside the 100-year flood zone. But according to First Street, almost 13% of city ...

Chicago’s urban flooding Experts said there ... In an emailed statement, FEMA said its flood maps use “different data and analysis to provide views of flood risk” from First Street’s ...

FEMA is supposed to warn homeowners about major flood risks, but its approach is notoriously limited. In Cook County alone, researchers found about six times as many properties in danger as FEMA ...

The proposed new Cook County maps were designed for use by communities to regulate development in flood-hazard areas and eventually will be drawn for all counties in the Chicago region.

In Chicago alone, 75,000 properties have a previously ... creating a website where people can check their own address. Federal flood maps, managed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency ...

ZIP code 46516 in Elkhart may have more than 2,500 properties at substantial risk of flooding, about 1,400 more than current floodplain maps suggest. About one-third of East Chicago's 27,000 ...

Chicago’s Smog-Eating Cement vs. NYC’s Fancy Flood Maps Which city will win the climate change preparation smackdown? Mark Hertsgaard Bio Share on Facebook ...