BlockFrom the record
One of 19 National Register listings published here for DeKalb County · listed in 2021 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Shabbona Hotel
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 104 West Comanche St., Shabbona, 60550
- When was it listed? May 2021
- Category. building
- Township. Shabbona township
- National Register reference number. 100006489 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Shabbona township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
Neighboring Indian Incidents
Through the research of John F. Steward the lost battleground, where three hundred Fox Indian warriors, with women and children, were besieged by 1,300 French and Indian allies, 1730, and killed, was located on Fox river near Piano. Mr. Steward made trips to Europe, examined the maps mi record, and believes that he has positively located the scene of this eventful affair.
The ground it stands on
66,247 wordsThe chapter on Shabbona Township in Portrait and Biographical Album of DeKalb County, Illinois : Containing Full-page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County : Together with Portraits and Biographies of All the Governors of Illinois, and of the Presidents of the United States : Also Containing a History of the County, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, published 1885 names Shabbona. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
HABBONA township is named in honor o the celebrated Indian chief, Shabbona. who long made his home at the beautiful grove which also bears his name. It is a fine body of land, comprising township 38, range 3 east. Big Indian Creek enters the township on section 31, runs in a northeasterly direction through sections 32, 29, 28, 22, 21, then taking a southeasterly direction, passes through sections 23, 26 and 36, into Paw Paw Township. The Kishwaukee River heads in the northern part of the township.
During the next few years quite a number of settlers came in and a village was started on the south side of the grove on section 26, known as Shabbona Grove. John Olmstead opened the first store and Mr. Adams the second. The latter soon after sold out to Warren & Marks - S. B. Warren and Wm. Marks. A postofrke was established here about 1848, Mr. Marks being the first postmaster. Mr Marks, is said to have been one of the twelve apostles of Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet. The office is still continued.
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 Shabbona Township - 66,247 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Fires near this property
1 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Shabbona Hotel in 2018, burning about 10 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | DAVIS RD/SHABBONA RD FIELD FIRE |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Shabbona Hotel: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inlet Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Purdy Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Weidner Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
21 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shabbona, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 13 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shabbona | $50,000 | Boats were tossed onto other boats at Shabbona Lake State Park. Large trees were snapped at the trunk or uprooted. Power poles were down near the state park office. |
| June 2013 | Tornado (EF1) | Shabbona | $20,000 | A National Weather Service storm survey determined an EF-1 tornado with maximum winds around 95 mph occurred near Shabbona. The maximum damage occurred along approximately a mile long path where the tornado snapped numerous utility poles and around 80 percent of the large hardwood trees. Along the remainder of the path there was minor tree damage and minor shingle peeling, but for the most part the tornado did not intersect any structures. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shabbona | $2,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shabbona | $500 | Shingles were torn off the roof of a home just north of Route 30 in Shabbona. Tree limbs were also blown down nearby. |
| February 2024 | Hail | Shabbona | - | Photo received via social media shows 2 hail. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shabbona | - | A photo shared on social media showed a roughly 2 foot diameter tree blown down. |
| August 2021 | Funnel Cloud | Shabbona | - | A well developed funnel cloud formed between Lee and Shabbona and was observed from multiple locations, including the air traffic control tower at the Aurora Municipal Airport. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shabbona | - | Tree limbs and power lines were blown down in Shabbona. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shabbona | - | Wind gusts were estimated between 70 mph and 80 mph in Lee. |
| November 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shabbona | - | Utility poles were damaged and 3 inch diameter tree limbs were blown down. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Shabbona | - | Golf ball size hail was reported in Lee. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Shabbona | - | Large hail was reported by the public. A storm survey by the NWS determined approximately one mile wide swath of major crop shredding due to hail. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shabbona | - | Wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph. |
| July 2009 | Funnel Cloud | Shabbona | - | A funnel cloud was reported near Lee in DeKalb County by several people. |
| July 2009 | Funnel Cloud | Shabbona | - | A funnel cloud was reported west of Shabbona Lake. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shabbona | - | Numerous trees, some 60 feet tall, were broke off around 10 feet above the ground. Most of the trees were 1 to 2 feet in diameter. The path of tree damage was in the southwest part of Shabbona Lake State Park. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shabbona | - | Trees were blown down. |
| March 2005 | Hail | Shabbona | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shabbona | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shabbona | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shabbona | - | no account filed |
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
2 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rollo Congregational United Church of Christ | 6.7 miles | 2019 | |
 | Nisbet Homestead Farm | 6.8 miles | 1984 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100006489 in Record Group 79. |
| DeKalb County | All 19 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.