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Photograph of Kennicott Grove
Photograph by Teemu008 from Palatine, Illinois, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Kennicott's Grove

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Kennicott Grove is an area of prairie and wooded lands in Glenview, Illinois, United States. It includes the home of John Kennicott (1802-1863) and his family, including his son Robert Kennicott (1835-1866).”

Wikipedia article Kennicott Grove, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 621 National Register listings published here for Cook County · listed in 1973 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

  • Address. Milwaukee and Lake Aves., Glenview, 60025
  • When was it listed? August 1973
  • Category. building
  • Township. Northfield township
  • National Register reference number. 73000698 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Kennicott's Grove: 3 past producers. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mount Prospect City EngStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Niles City Dept of Public WorksStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Northbrook City Dept of Public WorkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this property

19 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glenview, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 9 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
August 2007Thunderstorm WindGlenview1 hurt, $50,000A large tree was blown down onto a vehicle near Lyons School. The vehicle was destroyed. A three year old girl was trapped inside but suffered only minor injuries. Numerous other trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindGlenview-Trees were downed and numerous tents were blown around and destroyed during Niles Founders Day in Golf Mill Park.
April 2023HailGlenview-A photo shared on social media showed hail to the size of walnuts.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindGlenview-A large tree limb was blown down onto a road.
October 2021FloodGlenview-Lake Avenue was closed due to flooding at an underpass near Lehigh Avenue. Measured rainfall of 2.80 inches was reported in 24 hours near Northfield.
May 2018FloodWest Glenview-Standing water a few inches deep covered portions of Beckwith Road.
August 2018Heavy RainGlenview-Rainfall of 1.50 inches was measured in 45 minutes.
June 2013Flash FloodWest Glenview-Demster Street was flooded and closed between Harlem Avenue and Waukegan Road.
May 2012HailWest Glenview-Dime to penny size hail was reported near the intersection of Golf Road and Shermer Road.
May 2012Flash FloodWest Glenview-Dempster Street was flooded between Waukegan Road and Ozark Street.
May 2006HailGlenview-Penny size hail was reported at Greenwood and Milwaukee Roads.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindGlenview-Large tree limbs were blown down.
April 2023HailGlenview-no account filed
April 2023HailGlenview-no account filed
July 2021Thunderstorm WindGlenview-no account filed
July 2017HailGlenview-no account filed
April 2016HailGlenview-no account filed
October 2006HailWest Glenview-no account filed
October 2006HailWest Glenview-no account filed

Every storm 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
Hangar 1, Naval Air Station-Glenview1.9 miles1998
First Congregational Church, Des Plaines3.4 miles2019
Des Plaines Methodist Camp Ground3.7 miles2005
Illinois Industrial School for Girls4.4 miles1998
Herbert A. Dilg House4.8 miles2009
Pickwick Theater Building5.1 miles1975

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 73000698 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.
  • 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.