London Mills News

By: Kate Pabich kpabich@cbs4qc.com Nearly 4 dozen homes damaged, or destroyed. That's what flood water left behind in a small Illinois town.

He is the father of Lyric Cook one of the Evansdale Iowa girls abducted last summer and later found dead.

House by house, street by street, one Illinois town is recovering from flood damage.

It's hard to believe that the normally lazy Spoon River could cause any damage, but the residents of London Mills don't need any convincing.

Even with sandbags set up, residents in London Mills say flooding from the Spoon River was just too much to handle.