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Albany Park, Illinois

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Chicago City. It lies in ZIP code area 60625. The Survey maps it on the Chicago Loop quadrangle.

Albany Park within Cook County

On record in Albany Park

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 4 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Chicago city. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From Politics and Politicians of Chicago, Cook County, and Illinois : Memorial Volume, 1787-1887; a Complete Record of Municipal, County, State and National Politics from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, published 1887 - Chicago City

Index To Content

Chapter I. - First Settler of Chicago, 5. Various Appellations of Chicago. .Garies' River, 6. The Main River Bed Changed. .Chicago in Virginia. .Treaty of Greenville. . Original Site of Chicago. .Illinois in Indiana Territory. .Fort Dearborn Established. .First Commandants of the Fort. .Massacre of 1S12, 7. Captain John and Lieutenant Wm.

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In the county-history sources

902,150 words on this township

Politics and Politicians of Chicago, Cook County, and Illinois : Memorial Volume, 1787-1887; a Complete Record of Municipal, County, State and National Politics from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, published 1887; ... History of Chicago, Illinois, published 1895; Historical Review of Chicago and Cook County and Selected Biography. A.N. Waterman ... Ed. and Author of Historical Review, published 1908 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Chicago City covers the township.

Read the chapter on Chicago City - 902,150 words.

Storms near this place

7 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Albany Park in 7 storm reports between 2020 and 2026: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2025FloodAlbany Park-From the Chicago311 site, multiple reports were received of minor street flooding in the Albany Park, Irving Park, Avondale, North Center, and Lincoln Square neighborhoods of Chicago.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindAlbany Park-Multiple tree limbs were blown down in the Albany Park neighborhood of Chicago.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindAlbany Park-Tree limbs were blown down and some shingles were blown off roofs in Albany Park. One tree was uprooted and fell onto a three story building.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindAlbany Park-Tree damage was reported in Albany Park.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindAlbany Park-A corridor of significant wind damage occurred in Chicago, starting immediately east of Interstate 90/94 near Berteau and Kildare Avenues and continued northeast to near Montrose and Lawndale Avenues. Significant tree damage occurred in this corridor with many trees snapped or uprooted. Roof damage occurred to a few apartment buildings along Kedvale Avenue, just south of Cullom Avenue. One building suffered damage to a brick wall. Damage occurred to the top of a brick business at the southeast corner of Pulaski Road and Elston Avenue. Vehicles were damaged by the falling bricks. Several roofs sustained damage northeast of Elston Avenue, just south of Montrose Avenue and a window was blown out of a house. Two utility poles were damaged near Avers Avenue. Three buildings along Montrose Avenue suffered significant roof damage just east of Hamlin Avenue. Two buildings had west and south facing windows blown out near Montrose Avenue and Lawndale Avenue. The damage in this corridor indicates peak winds of 95 mph.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindAlbany Park-Large tree limbs fell onto a small car near Catalpa Avenue and Spaulding Avenue, trapping the occupants in the car. Firefighters had to cut the tree limbs away before the people could exit the car. No injuries were reported.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindAlbany Park-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cook County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Mayfair0.8 miles24
North Park0.9 miles24
California Park1.2 miles24
Irving Park1.2 miles24
Ravenswood Manor1.3 miles24
Montrose1.3 miles24
Ravenswood Gardens1.3 miles24
Bowmanville1.6 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1772738. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.