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Chicago Heights, Illinois

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Bloom Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60411. The Survey maps it on the Harvey quadrangle. 27,480 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Chicago Heights within Cook County

On record in Chicago Heights

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 2 records

Population over time

3 figures

Chicago Heights fell from 32,776 to 27,480 between 2000 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.

YearPeople Change
200032,776
201030,276-2,500 (-8%)
202027,480-2,796 (-9%)

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.

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Chicago Heights: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Thorton Plant LimeLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Brownell Improvement Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Chicago Hghts City EngStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Thornton Underground Mine No. 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Thorton Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

5 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chicago Heights in 5 storm reports between 2019 and 2026: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2026Flash FloodSouth Chicago Heights-Vehicles were stuck in flood waters just west of the intersection of 34th Avenue and Kings Road due to flooding. Video showed a vehicle stranded in flood waters beneath an underpass near Emerald Avenue and East Lincoln Highway. Minor flooding was reported on roadways in Chicago Heights. Thorn Creek in Glenwood reached minor flood stage. Rainfall of 3.06 inches was reported in Park Forest.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindSouth Chicago Heights-A roof was blown off of a building near Sauk Trail and Holeman Ave in Steger.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindSouth Chicago Heights-Sporadic straight line wind damage occurred across South Chicago Heights and continued east to State Street.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindChicago Heights-A 45 foot tall Pine tree was blown down in Chicago Heights.
June 2019Flash FloodChicago Heights-Photos showed Thorn Creek flowing over 26th Street.

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
Indian Hill0.7 miles25
Olympia Fields2.1 miles25
Graymoor2.2 miles25
Holbrook2.2 miles25
Park Forest2.3 miles17
Ford Heights2.3 miles27
Steger2.5 miles17
Glenwood3.1 miles27

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 Chicago HeightsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q578277The 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 406039. 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.