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Irving Park, 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 60641. The Survey maps it on the Chicago Loop quadrangle.

Irving Park within Cook County

On record in Irving 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 within a mile 6 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Irving Park: 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
Grand and Campbell Ave QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

11 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Irving Park in 11 storm reports between 2020 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flood. 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
July 2025FloodOld Irving Park-The underpass on Milwaukee Avenue near Kilbourn Avenue was flooded.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindIrving Park-Multiple reports of tree damage from around Chicago's Austin, Irving Park, and Avondale neighborhoods were relayed via the city's CHI311 program.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindOld Irving Park-Inbound trains were being halted at the Mayfair station due to a tree down on the tracks.
June 2023HailIrving Park-Photos shared on social media showed hail ranging from penny to quarter size.
July 2022HailIrving Park-Multiple reports of hail ranging from a half inch to one inch were received from northeast Chicago, including photos shared on social media of quarter size hail from the Irving Park neighborhood.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindIrving Park-Multiple tree limbs were blown down in the Irving Park neighborhood of Chicago.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindIrving Park-A 12 inch diameter tree was uprooted.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindIrving Park-Many tree limbs 4 to 6 inches in diameter were blown down with multiple roads closed or impassible. Large tree limbs were blown down at the corner of Avers Avenue and Roscoe Street.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindIrving Park-A power line was blown down in the Irving Park neighborhood.
April 2023HailOld Irving Park-no account filed
April 2023HailIrving Park-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
Six Corners0.6 miles24
Grayland0.6 miles24
Montrose0.9 miles24
Mayfair1.0 miles24
Albany Park1.2 miles24
Portage Park1.5 miles26
Belmont Park1.6 miles26
Avondale1.7 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1802412. 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.