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Avondale, 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 60618. The Survey maps it on the Chicago Loop quadrangle.

Avondale within Cook County

On record in Avondale

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 2 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Avondale: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Grand and Campbell Ave QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

31 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Avondale in 31 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 4 flood, 3 flash flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
June 2011Thunderstorm WindAvondale2 hurt, $10,000Local media reported that two people were in serious to critical condition after their car was crushed by a falling tree near the intersection of Farragut Avenue and Leavitt Street.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindAvondale$20,000Numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down in a several block area southwest of Rogers Park. A light pole was also blown over. Several streets were completed blocked by the downed trees. Three vehicles were damaged by falling trees. One was a van which was crushed.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindAvondale-Trees and tree limbs were blown down in Bricktown.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindAvondale-A private weather station measured a wind gust to 58 mph.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindAvondale-Multiple trees were blown down in Avondale. One tree fell onto a house, damaging the roof. Another tree fell onto power lines. A tree 3 to 4 feet in diameter was snapped at its base and fell onto several cars.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindAvondale-A large tree limb was blown down in a parking lot at the WGN Studios.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindAvondale-Multiple reports of minor tree damage were received.
June 2021Flash FloodAvondale-Photos shared on social media showed Belmont Avenue flooded with several inches of water.
May 2020FloodAvondale-Multiple reports of street flooding were received from the Edgewater neighborhood of Chicago.
May 2020Flash FloodAvondale-Lake Shore Drive was flooded in numerous locations including underpasses.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindAvondale-About 50 trees were knocked down or damaged along Logan Boulevard in the Logan Square neighborhood in Chicago. Tree limbs and power lines were also blown down.
June 2019FloodAvondale-Flood waters over one foot deep covered low spots of Lake Shore Drive between Irving Park Road and Lawrence Avenue.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindAvondale-One large tree and one large tree limb were blown down near Clark and Montrose.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindAvondale-Two large tree limbs were blown down in the Uptown neighborhood.
May 2018FloodAvondale-A viaduct was flooded with 1.5 feet of water at Irving Park Road and Ravenswood Avenue.
July 2016HailAvondale-Hail near Buena Park.
June 2014FloodAvondale-The intersection at Argyle Street and Albany Avenue was flooded with six inches of water.
August 2013HailAvondale-Penny size hail was reported near the intersection of Sheridan Road and Hollywood Avenue.
May 2012HailAvondale-Up to quarter size hail was reported from the intersection of Wilson Avenue and Broadway Street south to Wrigleyville.
June 2011HailAvondale-Nickel size hail was reported near Irving Park Road and Lake Shore Drive.
June 2011HailAvondale-Quarter size hail was reported in Ravenswood.
February 2009Flash FloodAvondale-Bryn Mawr Avenue exit from Lake Shore Drive was flooded and closed.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindAvondale-A wind gust to 72 mph was measured near Devon and Western. Tree damage was reported along Devon near Oakley Avenue and Clairmont Avenue.
June 2009HailAvondale-Quarter to half dollar size hail was reported near Loyola University.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindAvondale-A tree was blown down, blocking two lanes of traffic on Lake Shore Drive, just north of Lawrence Avenue.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindAvondale-A tree was uprooted near Lakeshore Drive and Bryn Mawr Avenue.
June 2009HailAvondale-Quarter size hail was reported in Rogers Park.
June 2008HailAvondale-Nickel size hail was reported in the Rogers Park Neighborhood.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindAvondale-Trees were severely damaged near Ashland, Foster and Montrose.
May 2019HailAvondale-no account filed
August 2015HailAvondale-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
Pennock1.1 miles24
Maplewood1.1 miles24
Logan Square1.2 miles24
Hermosa1.4 miles24
Bricktown1.5 miles24
Irving Park1.7 miles24
Hamlin Park1.7 miles24
California Park1.8 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1772770. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.