Top Level : History : Floods on the Illinois River

High Water encroaching upon a house and mobile home in this undated photograph. The homes have been built on eight-foot-tall foundations as a precaution against repeated flooding.

Illinois State Museum colleciton
Gift of James Skiles, Beardstown

<B>High Water</B> encroaching upon a house and mobile home in this undated photograph. The homes have been built on eight-foot-tall foundations as a precaution against repeated flooding.