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Dunning, Illinois

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Chicago City. It lies in ZIP code area 60634. The Survey maps it on the River Forest quadrangle.

Dunning within Cook County

On record in Dunning

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 1 record

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

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.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Dunning: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Niles City Dept of Public WorksStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
River Forest City Eng - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

12 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dunning in 12 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 lightning. 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
September 2018LightningDunning$10,000A house was struck by lightning and was damaged in the southern part of the Portage Park neighborhood.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindDunning-A photo shared on social media show a large tree snapped at its base and damage to a nearby car.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindDunning-Trees were blown down.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindDunning-A tree was blown down in Chicago's Dunning neighborhood. Wind magnitude and time were estimated based on radar.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindDunning-Multiple tree limbs were blown down in the Dunning neighborhood of Chicago.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindDunning-A photo was shared on social media showing part of an apartment complex roof peeled back.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindDunning-Scattered tree limbs and power lines were blown down across portions of western Chicago including in the Dunning and Mont Clare neighborhoods.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindDunning-A large sign for an auto dealer was blown down from south to north onto a car parked on Irving Park Road.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindDunning-A garage collapsed near Roscoe Street and Nordica Avenue.
June 2013HailDunning-Penny size hail was reported at Milwaukee Avenue and Bryn Mawr Avenue.
May 2012HailDunning-Numerous large hail reports were received from the near-north side of Chicago. The largest report was of golfball size hail near the intersection of Milwaukee Avenue and Addison Street. Quarter to ping-pong ball size hail was reported near Harwood Heights, Portage Park, Old Irving Park, and just east of North Park.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindDunning-Wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph at Central and Foster in Chicago.

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
Schorsch1.0 miles26
Harwood Heights1.2 miles26
Western Dunning1.3 miles26
Martin Luther1.3 miles26
Portage Park1.7 miles26
Norridge1.8 miles26
Colonial Gardens1.8 miles26
Ellsworth1.9 miles26

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 407513. 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.