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Jefferson Park, Illinois

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Chicago City. It lies in ZIP code area 60630. The Survey maps it on the River Forest quadrangle.

Jefferson Park within Cook County

On record in Jefferson 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 2 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 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 Jefferson Park: 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
Morton Grove City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Niles City Dept of Public WorksStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

9 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jefferson Park in 9 storm reports between 2021 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 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 WindJefferson Park-A photo shared on social media showed numerous large tree limbs broken near Interstate 90 and Lawrence Avenue. A nearby private weather station measured a wind gust to 60 mph.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindJefferson Park-Trees and tree limbs were blown down.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindJefferson Park-Numerous trees and large branches were reported down in the Jefferson Park and Portage Park neighborhoods of Chicago.
April 2023HailJefferson Park-Ping pong ball size hail was reported on the 5600 block of Bryn Mawr Avenue.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindJefferson Park-Photos shared on social media showed large tree limbs downed onto a garage in the Jefferson Park neighborhood of Chicago.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindJefferson Park-Multiple tree limbs were blown down in the Jefferson Park neighborhood of Chicago.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindJefferson Park-A roughly one foot diameter tree was blown down.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindJefferson Park-Scattered tree limbs and power lines were blown down between Foster Avenue and Irving Park Road in the Jefferson Park and Portage Park neighborhoods of Chicago.
June 2021Flash FloodJefferson Park-Several reports of flooded yards and roadways were received from the northwest side of Chicago.

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
Colonial Gardens0.7 miles26
Gladstone0.9 miles26
Portage Park0.9 miles26
Montrose1.0 miles24
Mayfair1.4 miles24
Martin Luther1.4 miles26
Six Corners1.5 miles24
Grayland1.6 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1737738. 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.