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Rainfall Totals Across the Chicago Area

Storms dumped a couple of inches of rain on the Chicago area this Mother's Day weekend, with most counties across northern Illinois under a Flash Flood Watch Saturday evening. 

The National Weather Service had issued a Flash Flood Watch for large portions of Northern Illinois, including DeKalb, LaSalle, Grundy, Kane, Kendall, DuPage, Cook, and Will counties Saturday. 

By Sunday morning, some areas saw up to 3 inches of rain, according to the NWS.

Here's a look at 2-day rainfall totals across the Chicago area as of Sunday morning:

Cook County

Lockport: 3.02 inches

Plainfield: 2.82

Oak Lawn 2SE: 1.99 inches

Oak Lawn: 1.88 inches

Worth: 1.83 inches

Lincolnwood: 1.58 inches

Elk Grove Village: 1.54 inches

Chicago Ridge: 1.44 inches

Park Ridge: 1.29 inches

O'Hare Airport: 1.27 inches

Willow Springs: 0.98 inches

Botanic Gardens: 0.95 inches

Oak Park: 0.9 inches

Midway Airport: 0.89 inches

Arlington Heights: 0.88 inches

Alsip: 0.85 inches

Wheeling: 0.84 inches

Park Forest: 0.63 inches

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DeKalb County

DeKalb: 0.48 inches

Genoa: 0.44 inches

Earlville:  0.42 inches

DuPage County

Burr Ridge: 1.16 inches

Elmhurst: 0.86 inches

Westmont: 0.78 inches

West Chicago: 0.7 inches

Glen Ellyn: 0.6 inches

Wheaton: 0.48 inches

Downers Grove: 0.4 inches

Grundy County

Morris: 0.41 inches

Minooka: 0.33 inches

Carbon Hill: 0.28 inches

Coal City: 0.28 inches

Kane County

St. Charles: 1.5 inches

Sugar Grove: 0.8 inches

Elgin: 0.75 inches

Geneva: 0.72 inches

Batavia: 0.48 inches

Elburn 0.42 inches

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Kendall County

Plainfield:  1.56 inches

Montgomery: 0.54 inches

LaSalle County

Peru: 0.5 inches

Ottawa: 0.47 inches

Lake County, Ind.

Gary: 1.02 inches

Merrillville: 0.6 inches

Lake Zurich: 0.54 inches

Porter County, Ind.

Valparaiso: 0.73 inches

Portage: 0.52 inches

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