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FEMA has given out $23 million in past month with the largest sums going to residents in Calumet City, Chicago, Dolton, South Holland and Riverdale.

The FEMA Cook County flooding assistance application has been extended to the end of October, as Chicago area leaders seek to help victims.

The First Street Foundation says 172,000 properties in Cook County — 79,000 of them in Chicago — have a high risk of flooding, far more than Federal Emergency Management Agency maps show.