Chatham, Illinois

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 3 records

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

• Garden Homes Historic Districtlisted 2005 · 0.6 miles away
• Four Nineteen Buildinglisted 1999 · 0.6 miles away
• West Chatham Bungalow Historic Districtlisted 2010 · 1.0 miles away

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 Calumet Lake quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1953 USGS Calumet Lake quadrangle1:24000
• 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Lake Calumet quadrangle1:24000
• 1965 USGS Lake Calumet quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Lake Calumet quadrangle1:24000
• 1997 USGS Lake Calumet quadrangle1:24000

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

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.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Chatham: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, 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.

Every working recorded in Cook County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chatham in 6 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 flash flood, 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.

Every storm recorded in Cook County

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1737435. 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.