Grant Park, Illinois

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Yellowhead Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60940. The Survey maps it on the Momence quadrangle. 1,294 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 695 feet above sea level.

Grant Park within Kankakee County

On record in Grant Park

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 1 record

Point Schoollisted 1992

Population over time

2 figures

Grant Park fell from 1,331 to 1,294 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Year	People	Change
2010	1,331
2020	1,294	-37 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1922 USGS Momence quadrangle1:62500
1924 USGS Momence quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Momence quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:100000

Storms near this place

28 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grant Park in 28 storm reports between 2004 and 2026: 16 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 3 tornado, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Grant Park	$50,000	Multiple large trees were blown down along area county roads, including one that fell onto a house at 620W County Line Road, and another that was uprooted and fell onto a car. Some of the trees were up to 16 inches in diameter.
June 2010	Lightning	Grant Park	$50,000	Lightning struck a house, which started a fire.
March 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Grant Park	$25,000	High winds damaged a brand new, 10,000 foot greenhouse and flattened and damaged 30,000 perennials. The high winds also blew plastic roofs off some 30 separate plant buildings and took the roof off of a pole barn. A grain auger was flipped over and damaged. A large barn on N 11000 E Road was blown over and destroyed. A large tree was blown down.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Grant Park	$15,000	Numerous large trees were blown down, including some that damaged a home.
November 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Grant Park	$5,000	Barn doors were blown in and a few power poles were blown down.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Grant Park	$3,000	Utility poles were blown down.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Grant Park	-	Tree damage was reported west of Grant Park.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Grant Park	-	Tree limbs were blown down northwest of Grant Park.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Grant Park	-	Trees and large tree limbs were blown down near Grant Park. Patches of corn were flattened east of Grant Park.
May 2023	Tornado (EFU)	Grant Park	-	A video shared shows a landspout-type tornado kicking up dust in a field southwest of Route 1 and Route 17 near Grant Park. Time was estimated based on radar.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Grant Park	-	Trees and tree limbs were blown down. A 6 to 8 inch diameter tree limb was blown down near Maple Street and Taylor Street.
August 2021	Heavy Rain	Grant Park	-	Rainfall of 3.69 inches was measured in 1 hour and 18 minutes.
August 2020	Tornado (EF0)	Grant Park	-	A tornado with peak winds of 80 mph touched down along N 11000 E Road. Tree limbs were blown down, a utility pole was damaged and crops were damaged. The tornado moved southeast through Grant Park. Numerous trees were damaged including some trees snapped and some trees uprooted. Minor roof damaged occurred to a house on Park Street and to another house on Maple Street. The tornado lifted near Lake Metonga.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Grant Park	-	Power lines were blown down, a 30 foot tall tree was snapped and shingles were blown off a roof.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Grant Park	-	Multiple 6 inch diameter tree limbs were snapped off of healthy trees. A 2 foot diameter tree was blown down.
September 2019	Hail	Grant Park	-	Tennis ball size hail was reported on 11000 E just north of 9000 N.
September 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Grant Park	-	Two utility poles and a large diameter tree were blown down.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Grant Park	-	A ten inch diameter tree was blown down.
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Grant Park	-	Winds were estimated at 66 mph and an eight inch diameter tree limb was blown down.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Grant Park	-	Trees were blown down.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Grant Park	-	Several large trees were blown down.
April 2004	Tornado (F0)	Grant Park	-	This tornado began about 1 mile southwest of Grant Park in an open field where it was spotted by the fire department. It crossed Route 1 west of town damaging a fence. The tornado moved into town causing minor roof damage to a few homes. Part of the roof of the fire station was peeled off and a large tree fell in the yard behind the fire station. The tornado moved across an open field, then knocked down a large tree at 9000N and Route 1. There was also minor roof damage to a farm building northeast of the intersection.
March 2026	Hail	Grant Park	-	no account filed
March 2026	Hail	Grant Park	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Grant Park	-	no account filed
March 2016	Hail	Grant Park	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Grant Park	-	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	Grant Park	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kankakee 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Judson (historical)	0.8 miles	12
Puder	2.1 miles	15
Sollitt	3.7 miles	12
Yeager	3.8 miles	14
Whitaker	4.4 miles	12
Ward	5.1 miles	14
Momence	5.2 miles	14
Sherburnville	5.4 miles	15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Grant Park	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2243984	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 409293. 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.

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.