On July 19, 2011, a complaint was filed on behalf of the People of the State of Illinois by Lisa Madigan, Attorney General of the State of Illinois, on her own motion and upon the request of the Illinois EPA, due to rain events within the City of Elmhurst that led to flooding of residential basements.
The City of Elmhurst and Attorney Generals office agreed on a Consent Order in 2014, that list out actions to be taken by the City to decrease/resolve basement flooding. One of those action items is to update the Attorney Generals office on task completed the prior year no later than June 15th of each year. Example: task completed from April 2014 to April 2015 would be reported by June 15th, 2015.