Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Groundwater can build pressure around a foundation and find its way inside through hairline cracks, floor joints or porous ...

Blamed in part on climate change, intense storms around Chicago are happening more frequently and dumping more rain on us, increasing the risk of flooding. These storms can drop more than 8½ inches of ...

Less than 1% of Cook County residents have flood insurance. Intense storms, fueled in part by climate change, are expected to get worse in the coming decades. Heavy recent rainfall raises the question ...

When heavy spring rains saturate the ground, the real concern for many homeowners isn't what's falling from above, but what may be rising below in the basement. Water damage ranks as the second most ...