West Town, Illinois

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 5 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Cathedral and Rectorylisted 1976 · 0.2 miles away
• East Village Historic Districtlisted 2009 · 0.6 miles away
• Humboldt Parklisted 1992 · 0.9 miles away
• Wicker Park Historic Districtlisted 1979 · 0.9 miles away
• Home Bank and Trust Companylisted 2007 · 0.9 miles away

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.

• 1889 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:62500
• 1891 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:62500
• 1900 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:62500
• 1901 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1929 USGS Chicago Loop quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1953 USGS Chicago Loop quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Chicago Loop quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
• 1993 USGS Chicago Loop quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1997 USGS Chicago Loop quadrangle1:24000

An account from the chapter on Chicago city. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

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.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of West Town: 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.

Every working recorded in Cook County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Town in 5 storm reports between 2023 and 2026: 2 heavy rain, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.

Every storm recorded in Cook County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1772788. 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.