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Photograph of Edward Hines, Jr., Veterans Administration Hospital
Photograph by Chicago Daily News, Inc, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Edward Jr. Hines Veterans Administration Hospital Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

“Veterans Administration Hospital is a second-generation Veterans Health Administration hospital in Cook County, Illinois, United States. It encompasses 174 acres (70 ha) on its campus and leases an additional 60 acres (24 ha) to the Loyola University Medical Center.”

Wikipedia article Edward Hines Jr. Veterans Administration Hospital, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 621 National Register listings published here for Cook County · listed in 2013 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Listed as. Hines, Edward Jr., Veterans Administration Hospital Historic District - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 5000 S. 5th Ave., Hines, 60141
  • When was it listed? October 2013
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. United States Second Generation Veterans Hospitals MPS
  • Township. Proviso township
  • Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
  • Architect. Richard E. Schmidt
  • National Register reference number. 13000814 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Edward Jr. Hines Veterans Administration Hospital Historic District: 11 past producers, 2 plants. 2 still produce. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
A C O'Laughlin Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bellwood QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Federal Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Mc Cook Yard No. 387 & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Melrose Park City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Northlake City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
River Forest City Eng - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Riverside Lime and Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Summit Quarry Consumers CompanyStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Superior Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cook 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
Dr. Joseph Carter Corbin Gravesite1.2 miles2023
Mrs. Henry F. Akin House1.4 miles1992
Haymarket Martyrs' Monument1.6 miles1997
Baptist Retirement Home1.7 miles2017
Mads C. Larson House1.7 miles1992
Harry H. Nichols House1.8 miles1992

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 13000814 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cook CountyAll 621 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.
  • 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.