Tinley Creek near Palos Park

The past week

What floods at each level

• 13 ft

  Widespread inundation of resdiences and businesses along 127th Street and Central Avenue in Crestwood. Central Avenue is threatened in Crestwood.

• 12.5 ft

  Water begins to bypass the main channel toward numerous residential streets and structures in the vicinity of 127th Street and Central Avenue in Crestwood. Widespread inundation of residences in the floodplain along Playfield Drive and Terrance Lane begins in Crestwood.

• 12 ft

  Residences are threatened along 129th Street in Crestwood.

• 11.5 ft

  Without flood protection, athletic fields are threatened at Playfield Park in Crestwood.

• 11 ft

  Structures are threatened at the Elim campus in Crestwood.

• 9.5 ft

  Parking lots are threatened at the Elim campus in Crestwood.

• 9 ft

  135th Street threatened west of Crestwood.

• 6.5 ft

  Low-lying sections of Rubio Woods are inundated near Crestwood and Palos Heights.

Highest crests on record

When the water runs low

• 2.0

  River nears zero flow.