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Chicago Lawn, 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 60629. The Survey maps it on the Englewood quadrangle.

Chicago Lawn within 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.

Read the chapter on Chicago City - 902,150 words.

Fires near this place

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Chicago Lawn in 2005, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

5 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chicago Lawn in 5 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 5 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
June 2013Thunderstorm WindChicago Lawn$10,000A tree fell onto a car.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindChicago Lawn-A large tree was blown down onto a house on Oakley Avenue.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindChicago Lawn-Trees and power lines were blown down in the 2400 block of Marquette Road.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindChicago Lawn-Several trees were reported down near West 65th Street and South Oakley Avenue.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindChicago Lawn-Large tree limbs were down near 64th St. and Maple Ave.

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
Marquette Manor1.1 miles26
South Lynn1.1 miles26
Mexico1.3 miles26
Drexel Estate1.3 miles26
West Lawn1.4 miles26
Gage Park1.4 miles26
Forest Hill1.4 miles26
Garfield Manor1.5 miles26

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1826575. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.