Rosemont, Illinois
23 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 60018. It stands on Higgins Creek. The Survey maps it on the Elmhurst quadrangle. 3,952 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresRosemont fell from 4,202 to 3,952 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 4,202 | |
| 2020 | 3,952 | -250 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 23 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1891 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:62500
- 1900 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:62500
- 1901 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1928 USGS Elmhurst quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Elmhurst quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Elmhurst quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Elmhurst quadrangle1:24000
- 1997 USGS Elmhurst quadrangle1:24000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Chicago city. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
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.
In the county-history sources
902,150 words on this townshipPolitics 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 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rosemont: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Niles City Dept of Public Works | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
12 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rosemont in 12 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2010 | Hail | Rosemont | $868,000 | The roof of the All State Arena was damaged by hail and had to be replaced. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rosemont | $350,000 | A building near the Allstate Arena was damaged and a public works garage was damaged by wind. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rosemont | $25,000 | Strong winds ripped a hole in the Dome at the Ballpark practice facility causing it to collapse. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rosemont | - | Damage to roofs was reported on the northeastern side of O'Hare. There was also an Amazon trailer blown over and a street sign with two 4x4 posts snapped near the intersection of Manheim and Higgins Roads. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rosemont | - | A photo shared on social media showed part of a large tree that was blown down near Rivers Casino. Another tree 18 inches in diameter was snapped at its base. This tree appeared to be rotten. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rosemont | - | A light pole was blown down along southbound River Road near Interstate 190. |
| July 2014 | Flood | Rosemont | - | A foot of standing water reduced traffic to a single lane on westbound I-190 near Mannheim Road. A trail of passengers that abandoned their cars and cabs walked to O'Hare Airport. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rosemont | - | A tree was blown down near Cruz and Manheim Roads. |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rosemont | - | Several tree limbs were blown down. |
| November 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rosemont | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rosemont | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Rosemont | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riverview | 1.7 miles | 26 | |
| Park Ridge | 2.6 miles | 19 | |
| Des Plaines | 2.6 miles | 19 | |
| Schiller Park | 2.8 miles | 26 | |
| Norma | 3.2 miles | 19 | |
| Edison | 3.2 miles | 26 | |
| Norridge | 3.7 miles | 26 | |
| Franklin Park | 4.3 miles | 26 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Rosemont | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1191401 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 416963. 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.











