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Logan Square, 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 60647. The Survey maps it on the Chicago Loop quadrangle.

Logan Square within Cook County

On record in Logan Square

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

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Logan Square: 4 past producers, 2 plants, 2 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Aluminum, Zinc, Ruthenium, Gold, Iridium, Palladium, Platinum, Silver, Gallium. 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
(Facility) Simmons Precious Metals RefineryRuthenium, Gold, Iridium, Palladium, Platinum, Silver, GalliumPlant
Apex Intl Alloys-Chicago PlantAluminum, ZincPlant
Superior Graphite,Chicago PlantGraphiteProducer
Us Steel Chicago Plant--South WorksIronProducer
Chicago Union Lime Works QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
City of Chicago Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Cook County Highway Dept.-Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Grand and Campbell Ave QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

3 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Logan Square in 3 storm reports between 2022 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 2024Thunderstorm WindLogan Square-Photos shared on social media showed several large tree limbs greater than 8 inches in diameter blown down on cars in the Logan Square neighborhood. One tree at least 1 foot in diameter was snapped near its base.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindLogan Square-Tree damage was reported in Logan Square.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindLogan Square-The top of a tree was snapped off and fell onto a parked car.

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
Maplewood0.4 miles24
Humboldt0.8 miles24
Avondale1.2 miles24
Pacific Junction1.3 miles24
Bricktown1.4 miles24
Pennock1.5 miles24
Hamlin Park1.6 miles24
West Town1.7 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1772729. 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.