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Pilsen, Illinois

26 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 60608. It stands on South Branch Chicago River. The Survey maps it on the Englewood quadrangle.

Pilsen within Cook County

On record in Pilsen

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 9 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

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Pilsen: 5 past producers, 3 producers, 2 plants. 5 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
Lyons QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Stearns Lime and Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

7 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pilsen in 7 storm reports between 2021 and 2025: 4 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
August 2025FloodPilsen-Multiple reports were received of street flooding in Chicago's McKinley Park community area.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindEast Pilsen-A large tree limb fell onto a car near 15th Street and Racine Avenue.
May 2024FloodEast Pilsen-A video shared on social media showed stopped cars due to flooding of an underpass on Halsted Street near 15th Place.
July 2024FloodEast Pilsen-Water was reported covering multiple lanes of Interstate 90 near Roosevelt Road.
July 2023Heavy RainPilsen-A private weather station, KILCHICA920, recorded 5.9 inches of storm total rainfall.
September 2023FloodPilsen-Street flooding was reported in the Armour Square, Bridgeport and Douglas neighborhoods of Chicago.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindPilsen-A tree was blown down onto a car on 26th Street.

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
Lower West Side0.5 miles26
Robert Brooks Homes0.5 miles26
Grace Abbott Homes0.6 miles26
Chicago0.7 miles26
Jane Addams Homes0.8 miles26
South Branch Addition1.0 miles26
Locks1.1 miles26
Garibaldi Square1.2 miles26

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1764315. 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.