Cook County residents get $200 million in federal flood relief for summer rainstorms – WBEZ (Chicago)

As of Monday, more than 60,000 applications have been approved since the application period opened Aug. 15, according to FEMA’s website. The amount of FEMA assistance granted for this summer’s flooding is the second-highest amount of aid provided for individual households in a federally declared disaster in Illinois since 2003, the earliest year for which data was available.