Beverly, Illinois

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Chicago City. It lies in ZIP code area 60643. It lies near Blue Island Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Blue Island quadrangle.

Beverly within Cook County

On record in Beverly

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 1 record

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

Ridge Historic Districtlisted 1976 · 0.6 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 25 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.

1892 USGS Calumet quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Calumet quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Calumet quadrangle1:62500
1901 USGS Calumet quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1929 USGS Blue Island quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Blue Island quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Blue Island quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Blue Island quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1997 USGS Blue Island quadrangle1:24000

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 names this settlement in its chapter on Chicago City. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Chapter X. - Municipal Election of 1881. .Harrison and Clark. .Veto of the Appropriation Bill. .Appointments. .Mayor Harrison's Second Inaugural, 255, 265. Assassination of Garfield.. Mayor's Address and Action of the City Council. .Action on the Death of Maj. Lannigan .. Mayor Harrison on the "Bridge Nuisance". .Visitors from New Orleans.. Mayor's Annual Message. .The Grand Jury_and Gambling. .Aldermanic Election of 1882 . Appointments. .The Mayor Visits Europe. .Resolutions on the Death of Peter Cunningham. .Mayor's Annual Message for 1882, 265,285. State Campaign of 1S82 . Election of Shelby M. Cullom to the U. S. Senate. .The "Harper Law". .The Female Suffrage Bill. . Municipal Campaign of 1883. .Harrison vs. Cary. .Appointments and Official Bonds.. Act-ion of Council on Death of Ex-Aid. William Wheeler, Aid. J. E. Geohegan, Aid. J. H. Foley and Ex-Aid. C. L. Woodman. . Aldermanic Election of 1884. .Mayor Harrison on Kiosques. .Annual Message for 1884. .Assassination of Aid. Michael Gaynor. .Action of the Council, 285 to 304.

Passage source: 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.

Chapter XIV. - Socialism and Anarchism. .Growth of Socialism. .The Lehr und Wehr Verein. .Capt. Frank Bielfeld's Case. .The Militia Law Test Case. .The Silver Leaf Grove Riot. .The Herman Presser Case. .Federal Supreme Court Decision. .Action of the Anarchists in Connection with the Eight hour Labor Movement. .The "Black Road" Riot . The Anarchist Call to Arms .The Haymarket Massacre. .The Deadly Dynamite Bomb Thrown. .Suppression of the Arbeiter Zeitung and Arrest and Indictment of Spies, Parsons, Fielden, Schwab, Lingg, Neebe, Fischer, etal., the Anarchist Conspiracy Unearthed. . The Anarchist Trials. .Efforts to Obtain a Jury. .Scenes and Incidents. .Testimony of Gottfried Waller, the Informer .Testimony of William Seliger. . Lingg, the Bomb-maker. .Sensational Evidence of Detective Andrew C.Johnson .The Evidence in Detail . . Witness Harry L. Gilmer. .Discoveries of Capt. Schaack. .finding Infernal Machines. .Experiments with Bombs. .Parsons' Paper, the Alarm .Spies' Incendiary Utterances. . Extracts from the Anarchist Organs. .The Defense. .The Police Arraigned. . Evidence of Dr. James D. Taylor, of August Krumm..The Russian Correspondent, Malkoff. .The Eight Prisoners

Examined in Their Own Behalf. A Funny Witness. . Letters from Anarchist Johann Most. .Arguments of Counsel for the State and for the Defense. .Capt. Black's Plea for the Defense. .State's Attorney Grinnell for the Prosecution. .Judge Gary's Instructions to the Jury.. The Verdict. . Sketches of the Condemned. .Sketches of the Jurors. . Official Police Department Report of Casualties at the Haymarket Story of the Conspiracy. . Rudolph Schnaubelt, the Bomb-thrower. The Grand Jury and their Report Sensational Evidence Heard. .Cost of the Anarchist Trials .Comments of the Arbeiter Zeitung. .The Socialists start a Political Movement. .Capt. Black Serves Notice for a New Trial. .The Arguments. . Remarkable Affidavits of Orrin Blossom and A. P. Love. .The Motion for a New Trial Overruled .The Condemned make Appeals in their own Behalf. .Speeches of Spies, Fischer, Schwab, Neebe, Lingg, Engel, Fielden and Parsons. .Sentence Pronounced. . Address of the Court. Sketch of Judge Cary, 379, 500.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

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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 Beverly: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	Yard No. 22 Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

4 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beverly in 4 storm reports between 2022 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Beverly	-	Multiple reports of trees and tree limbs blown down were received from Beverly and Washington Heights. Some trees were snapped. Several cars were damaged by trees and tree limbs.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Beverly	-	Multiple reports of tree damage were received from the Beverly and Washington Heights neighborhoods in Chicago.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Beverly	-	Multiple tree limbs were blown down in the Beverly neighborhood of Chicago.
May 2024	Hail	Beverly	-	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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Beverly Hills	0.4 miles	25
Washington Heights	1.2 miles	25
Brainerd	1.3 miles	25
Evergreen Park	1.5 miles	25
Morgan Park	2.0 miles	25
South Englewood	2.1 miles	25
Mount Greenwood	2.3 miles	25
Chester Highlands	2.5 miles	25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1737397. 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.