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During the storm, Lake Michigan's level at Chicago rose to 585 ft. above sea level, nearly three feet above the August average. Though the summer was abnormally dry, levels on the Detroit river have averaged nearly two feet higher than last season's level. Last week Chicago, lashed by the high lake, made sarcastic jibes at Cleveland and Buffalo for their clamor about low lake levels, for their thunderous protest against Chicago's diversion of lake water through her drainage canal.