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Edgewater, Illinois

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Chicago City. It lies near Rogers Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Chicago Loop quadrangle.

Edgewater within Cook County

On record in Edgewater

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 12 of 17 shown

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

Every listing in Cook County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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.

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Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Edgewater: 1 past producer. 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
Evanston City EngStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

14 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edgewater in 14 storm reports between 2020 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindEdgewater-A photo showed a two foot diameter tree that was uprooted in Andersonville. Several other reports of trees blown down were received nearby.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindEdgewater-A large tree was snapped.
August 2025FloodEdgewater-A viaduct was flooded along Thorndale Ave just east of Broadway.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindEdgewater-A tree was blown down onto a car, which was damaged.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindEdgewater-A four inch diameter tree limb was blown down on a car.
August 2021FloodEdgewater-A photo shared on social media showed several inches of standing water on a residential street in Andersonville.
August 2021Flash FloodEdgewater-Multiple photos and videos shared on social media showed flooding of underpasses along Lake Shore Drive.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindEdgewater-Large tree limbs were blown down and a tree was uprooted along Ravenswood Avenue.
October 2021Thunderstorm WindEdgewater-A large tree was snapped.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindEdgewater-A wind gust to 85 mph was measured.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindEdgewater-A tree was blown down blocking the exit from Lake Shore Drive to Wilson Drive.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindEdgewater-Wind gusts to 80 mph were measured at the Montrose Harbor Light.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindEdgewater-A large tree was snapped blocking Eastwood Avenue. Other large tree limbs were blown down nearby.
August 2024HailEdgewater-no account filed

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
Uptown0.2 miles24
West Edgewater0.5 miles24
Summerdale0.5 miles24
North Edgewater0.7 miles24
South Edgewater0.8 miles24
Winnemac0.8 miles24
Wolcott Gardens1.0 miles24
Winchester-Hood Garden Homes1.0 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1772750. 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.