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Englewood, 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 60621. The Survey maps it on the Englewood quadrangle.

Englewood within Cook County

On record in Englewood

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 Englewood: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 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
Lyons QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Stearns Lime and Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

11 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Englewood in 11 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 5 flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
August 2025Flash FloodEnglewood-Multiple reports of flooded basements came out of Chicago's Greater Grand Crossing community area.
March 2024FloodEnglewood-Multiple public reports of minor street flooding in the Englewood and Greater Grand Crossing neighborhoods of Chicago were received via social media.
May 2024FloodEnglewood-Multiple reports of roadway flooding were received on Interstate 94 between Interstate 57 and Interstate 90.
July 2024FloodEnglewood-The left express lane of Interstate 90/94 was flooded near 67th Street.
July 2024Tornado (EF0)Englewood-A tornado with estimated peak winds of 80 mph began near Harvard Avenue between 69th Street and 70th Street near the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago. The tornado moved northeast crossing Interstate 94 then crossed Interstate 90, where a railroad car was reported to be knocked over. A roof was damaged on a building near 68th Street and Rhodes Avenue with debris scattered onto the street. The tornado continued across the Woodlawn and Jackson Park neighborhoods of Chicago where numerous trees were damaged, some snapped, some uprooted. Minor roof damage was also reported. A large tree was uprooted and fell onto two houses in the 6600 block of South University Avenue. A large tree was snapped and fell onto a roadway near Marquette Road and Kimbark Avenue. The tornado moved out over Lake Michigan as a waterspout near the 63rd Street Beach.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindEnglewood-Multiple tree limbs were blown down in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindEnglewood-A large tree and utility pole were snapped. Large tree limbs fell onto two cars.
August 2020FloodEnglewood-Flooding was reported under a viaduct to the point vehicles could not cross.
June 2019FloodEnglewood-Minor flooding of an underpass was reported at S State and 63rd Streets.
May 2012Flash FloodEnglewood-Martin Luther King Drive between 51st Street and 55th Street and portions of Garfield Boulevard were impassable due to flash flooding.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindEnglewood-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
Becks Park0.7 miles26
West Englewood1.1 miles26
Drexel Estate1.4 miles26
South Lynn1.6 miles26
Park Manor1.6 miles24
Washington Park1.7 miles24
New Auburn1.8 miles26
Auburn Park1.8 miles26

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 408028. 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.