Record rain mopped up

((PHOTO CAPTION CONTINUED)) Laura Skup was one of some 150 neighbors who worked together throughthe night Fridat to sandbag their properties along the Chicago Riverin the 5000 blocks of North Monticello, Drake and St. Louis. Albina Kusek evacuates her sister's dog, Mitzi, for a second time.The dog had been removed once from its Des Plaines home but swamback. Despite the odds, a "For Sale" sign went up Saturday at thishome on Hawthorne Lane in Des Plaines. ((CAPTION ENDS))

Waterlogged homeowners and bone-tired municipal workers indozens of suburbs and Chicago spent Saturday bailing out and cleaningup after the area's worst rain in a century.

But even as the worst …