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.
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
Bloom Township High Schoollisted 1982
Flat Iron Buildinglisted 2003
Population over time
3 figuresChicago 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 32,776 | |
| 2010 | 30,276 | -2,500 (-8%) |
| 2020 | 27,480 | -2,796 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 25 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.
- 1892 USGS Calumet quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Calumet quadrangle1:62500
- 1900 USGS Calumet quadrangle1:62500
- 1901 USGS Calumet quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1929 USGS Harvey quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Harvey quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Harvey quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Harvey quadrangle1:24000
- 1998 USGS Harvey quadrangle1:24000
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thorton Plant Lime | Limestone, General | Past Producer | ||
| Brownell Improvement Co Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Chicago Hghts City Eng | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Thornton Underground Mine No. 2 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Thorton Quarry & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 2019Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2026 | Flash Flood | South 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 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Chicago Heights | - | A roof was blown off of a building near Sauk Trail and Holeman Ave in Steger. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Chicago Heights | - | Sporadic straight line wind damage occurred across South Chicago Heights and continued east to State Street. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chicago Heights | - | A 45 foot tall Pine tree was blown down in Chicago Heights. |
| June 2019 | Flash Flood | Chicago Heights | - | Photos showed Thorn Creek flowing over 26th Street. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indian Hill | 0.7 miles | 25 | |
| Olympia Fields | 2.1 miles | 25 | |
| Graymoor | 2.2 miles | 25 | |
| Holbrook | 2.2 miles | 25 | |
| Park Forest | 2.3 miles | 17 | |
| Ford Heights | 2.3 miles | 27 | |
| Steger | 2.5 miles | 17 | |
| Glenwood | 3.1 miles | 27 |
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 Heights | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q578277 | 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 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.











