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Bronzeville, Illinois

26 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 60609. The Survey maps it on the Englewood quadrangle.

Bronzeville within Cook County

On record in Bronzeville

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 12 of 18 shown

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

Every listing in Cook County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 26 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.

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Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Bronzeville: 4 past producers, 3 producers, 2 plants. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Aluminum, Zinc, Ruthenium, Gold, Iridium, Palladium, Platinum, Silver, Gallium. 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
(Facility) Simmons Precious Metals RefineryRuthenium, Gold, Iridium, Palladium, Platinum, Silver, GalliumPlant
Apex Intl Alloys-Chicago PlantAluminum, ZincPlant
Superior Graphite,Chicago PlantGraphiteProducer
Us Steel Chicago Plant--South WorksIronProducer
Chicago Union Lime Works QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
City of Chicago Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Cook County Highway Dept.-Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lyons QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Stearns Lime and Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

2 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bronzeville in 2 storm reports between 2022 and 2026: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2026Thunderstorm WindBronzeville-Multiple large tree branches and limbs were downed in and around the Garfield Park community area of Chicago.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBronzeville-Trees, tree limbs, power lines and light poles were blown down in a swath between 31st Street and 55th Street in the Douglas, Kenwood and Hyde Park neighborhoods of Chicago. Some trees were uprooted near Hyde Park. A large portion of a hardwood tree was blown down across the road near 3900 Lake Park Avenue.

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
Stateway Gardens (historical)0.1 miles26
Douglas0.5 miles24
Armour Square0.7 miles26
Lake Meadows0.8 miles24
Aldine Square0.8 miles24
Ida B Wells Housing Project0.8 miles24
South Commons0.8 miles24
Dearborn Homes0.8 miles26

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1825920. 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.