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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 26 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.
- 1889 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:62500
- 1891 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:62500
- 1900 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:62500
- 1901 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1929 USGS Englewood quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Englewood quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Englewood quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Englewood quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1997 USGS Englewood quadrangle1:24000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Chicago city. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
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.
In the county-history sources
902,150 words on this townshipPolitics 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 2005Regional 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/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 June 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2004Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chicago Lawn | $10,000 | A tree fell onto a car. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chicago Lawn | - | A large tree was blown down onto a house on Oakley Avenue. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chicago Lawn | - | Trees and power lines were blown down in the 2400 block of Marquette Road. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chicago Lawn | - | Several trees were reported down near West 65th Street and South Oakley Avenue. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chicago Lawn | - | Large tree limbs were down near 64th St. and Maple Ave. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marquette Manor | 1.1 miles | 26 | |
| South Lynn | 1.1 miles | 26 | |
| Mexico | 1.3 miles | 26 | |
| Drexel Estate | 1.3 miles | 26 | |
| West Lawn | 1.4 miles | 26 | |
| Gage Park | 1.4 miles | 26 | |
| Forest Hill | 1.4 miles | 26 | |
| Garfield Manor | 1.5 miles | 26 |
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.











