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Hermosa, Illinois

24 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 60639. The Survey maps it on the Chicago Loop quadrangle.

Hermosa within Cook County

On record in Hermosa

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 3 records

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 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.

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 Hermosa: 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
Grand and Campbell Ave QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
River Forest City Eng - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hermosa in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
April 2023Thunderstorm WindHermosa-A photo shared on social media showed a large section of a roof blown off a building in the 4500 block of Grand Avenue.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindHermosa-Several photos were shared on social media of multiple trees and tree limbs blown down. One large tree limb fell on a pickup truck in the 1700 block of Pulaski Road.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindHermosa-Tree limbs 8 inches in diameter were blown down and a screen door was damaged.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindHermosa-A line of thunderstorms moved east across the city of Chicago, producing wind gusts in excess of 60 mph. The department of Streets and Sanitation received thousands of reports of trees and limbs down, and light poles blown down, throughout the city. The worst of the storm hit the central and south parts of the city. In downtown Chicago, windows were blow out of the 25th, 28th and 29th floor of the Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower). A building in Block 37 at State Street and Randolph had 35 windows damaged. Pieces of concrete were knocked off the Aon Center.
June 2008HailHermosa-Quarter size hail was reported near Central Avenue and Van Buren.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindHermosa-A wind gust to 64 mph was measured near Cicero Avenue and Washington Boulevard.
June 2009HailHermosa-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
Pennock0.4 miles24
Kelvyn Grove0.6 miles24
Belmont Park1.0 miles26
Garfields1.1 miles24
Cragin1.3 miles26
Pacific Junction1.3 miles24
Whiskey Point1.4 miles26
Avondale1.4 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1772737. 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.