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Photograph of Holy Family Church
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Holy Family Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“Holy Family Church is a historic church at 1840 Lincoln Street in North Chicago, Illinois. The church was built in 1914-15 for North Chicago's Roman Catholic congregation, which was formed in 1901.”

Wikipedia article Holy Family Church (North Chicago, Illinois), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 98 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 2003 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 1840 Lincoln St., North Chicago, 60064
  • When was it listed? August 2003
  • Category. building
  • Township. Shields township
  • National Register reference number. 03000780 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

The ground it stands on

4,524 words

This property stands in Shields Township. The Past and Present of Lake County, Illinois, published 1877 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Shields Township - 4,524 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Holy Family Church between 2012 and 2018, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
10 July 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources12_2571
1 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources60118
8 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources18-1522

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Holy Family Church: 1 producer, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Tantalum, Niobium (Columbium), Tungsten, Iodine. 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
Abbotts North Chicago Iodine PlantIodinePlant
Fansteel #1 Tantalum PlantTantalum, Niobium (Columbium), TungstenProducer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this property

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Chicago, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2014: 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2014FloodNorth Chicago-Standing water approximately 6 to 12 inches deep was reported on streets and parking lots across Great Lakes Naval Station.
April 2006HailNorth Chicago-Quarter size hail was reported at 14th and Sheridan Streets.
April 2003HailNorth Chicago-no account filed
May 2000HailNorth Chicago-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Great Lakes Naval Training Station0.9 miles1986
Dewey House1.7 miles1985
Howard and Lucy Linn House1.9 miles2005
Lester Armour House2.3 miles1984
William McCormick Blair Estate2.4 miles2008
Hotel Waukegan2.5 miles1994

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 03000780 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lake CountyAll 98 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • 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.