Berwyn, Illinois
24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Berwyn Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60402. The Survey maps it on the Berwyn quadrangle. 57,250 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 610 feet above sea level.
On record in Berwyn
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 7 records
American State Banklisted 2000
Berwyn Health Centerlisted 2002
Berwyn Municipal Buildinglisted 2001
Central Berwyn Bungalow Historic Districtlisted 2015
Arthur J. Dunham Houselisted 1982
Mr. Robert Silhan Houselisted 2007- The Hunt Clublisted 2024
Population over time
3 figuresBerwyn grew from 5,841 to 57,250 between 1910 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1910 | 5,841 | |
| 2010 | 56,657 | |
| 2020 | 57,250 | +593 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 24 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1891 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:62500
- 1900 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:62500
- 1901 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1928 USGS Berwyn quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Berwyn quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Berwyn quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Berwyn quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Berwyn quadrangle1:24000
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Berwyn: 6 past producers, 1 plant. 1 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mc Cook Yard No. 387 & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Plant | ||
| Melrose Park City Eng. - Own Crews | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| River Forest City Eng - Own Crews | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Riverside Lime and Stone Co Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Summit Quarry Consumers Company | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Superior Stone Co Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| West Chester City Eng. - Own Crews | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
19 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Berwyn in 19 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 heavy rain, 2 flash 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Berwyn | $10,000 | A weak EF-0 tornado produced mainly tree damage in western Chicago. The first damage was noted on Arthington Street, just west of Cicero Avenue. A continuous path of mostly minor tree damage extended to the east northeast crossing Interstate 290 near Pulaski Road with the final damage noted near Garfield Park, between 5th Avenue and Jackson Blvd near Central Park Avenue. One tree was blown into an apartment building knocking out windows and a couple of large tree limbs fell onto cars. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Berwyn | $10,000 | Trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down in Berwyn. Some of the tree limbs fell onto cars. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Berwyn | - | Multiple 12 inch diameter trees were snapped. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Berwyn | - | A photo showed a tree limb roughly 8 inches in diameter snapped in Proska Park. |
| July 2023 | Heavy Rain | Berwyn | - | A private weather station, KILCICER16 , recorded 8.21 inches of rainfall between roughly 6 AM and 2 PM CST. |
| July 2023 | Heavy Rain | Berwyn | - | A private weather station, KILCICER16, recorded 8.96 inches of storm total rainfall. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Berwyn | - | A large tree was uprooted and numerous large tree limbs were blown down in Berwyn. |
| June 2021 | Flash Flood | Berwyn | - | The intersection of 29th Street and Wisconsin Avenue was completely submerged from flood waters. Rainfall of 2.76 inches was measured in 1.5 hours. |
| May 2020 | Heavy Rain | Berwyn | - | Rainfall of 1.80 inches was measured in one hour. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Berwyn | - | Tree damage was reported in Cicero. |
| July 2019 | Flash Flood | Berwyn | - | Numerous viaducts were completely submerged and impassable, particularly in the North Lawndale neighborhood. |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Berwyn | - | Numerous branches were blown down, including several large branches between Ashland and Pulaski and Roosevelt and 31st in the Little Village Neighborhood. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Berwyn | - | Numerous moderate sized limbs were blown down. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Berwyn | - | A wind gust to 67 mph was measured in the Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago. |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Berwyn | - | Several trees were blown down throughout the city. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Berwyn | - | Quarter size hail was reported at Oak Park and 31st Street. |
| March 2026 | Hail | Berwyn | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Berwyn | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Flood | Berwyn | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lavergne | 1.2 miles | 24 | |
| Clyde | 1.3 miles | 24 | |
| North Riverside | 1.7 miles | 24 | |
| Riverside | 1.9 miles | 24 | |
| Stickney | 2.1 miles | 24 | |
| Cicero | 2.1 miles | 24 | |
| Forest Park | 2.3 miles | 26 | |
| Oak Park | 2.4 miles | 26 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Berwyn | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q578072 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 404233. 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.











