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Illinois river and lake gauges

The water level now at 252 gauges on Illinois's rivers, lakes, reservoirs and canals, from A to Z. Each opens its own page.

252 gaugespage 2 of 21,393 stations ranked in IllinoisIllinois weather

GaugeCountyStage nowReportedRank
Worth - Stony Creek (West)STCI2Cook26.79 ft22 min ago538
Yorkville - Blackberry CreekYRKI2Kendall3.92 ft52 min ago490

How to read a gauge

A gauge measures the height of the water where it stands, its stage, in feet above a fixed mark at that gauge. Two gauges' stages are not comparable: each is measured from its own mark, and a reservoir's is often its height above sea level.

The stage shown is the latest the gauge reported, with the time it reported it. Storm Station hears each gauge on its own schedule and ranks it among its state's stations by its 247 score, how reliably it reports and how its readings hold up: that is its 247 rank.