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La Grange Village Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The La Grange Village Historic District is a national historic district encompassing a large section of the village of La Grange, Illinois. The district includes over 1000 buildings, most of which are residences.”

Wikipedia article La Grange Village Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 621 National Register listings published here for Cook County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Address. U.S. 12, La Grange, 60525
  • When was it listed? August 1979
  • Category. building
  • Township. Lyons township
  • National Register reference number. 79000834 - 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.

Fires near this property

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of La Grange Village Historic District in 2005, burning under an acre 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
20 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Every fire recorded in Cook County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of La Grange Village Historic District: 9 past producers, 2 plants, 1 producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Perlite. 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
Silbrico Expanded Perilite PlantPerliteProducer
A C O'Laughlin Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bellwood QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Dolese and Shepard Crushed StoneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Federal Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Mc Cook Yard No. 387 & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Riverside Lime and Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Summit Quarry Consumers CompanyStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Superior Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this property

13 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Grange, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash 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
June 2011Thunderstorm WindLa Grange$150,000The west side of La Grange was hit the hardest with numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines blown down. Some streets were completely blocked due to the fallen trees. Six homes and one garage were damaged by the falling trees and limbs and at least one vehicle was damaged.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindLa Grange$3,000Trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down in LaGrange.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindLa Grange$3,000Tree limbs and power lines were blown down across parts of LaGrange.
March 2026HailLa Grange-A few 1 to 2 inch hail reports came out of LaGrange and Brookfield.
August 2025Flash FloodLa Grange-Several inches of water were covering roadways in the vicinity of LaGrange Rd and 55th St in Countryside.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindLa Grange-Multiple large tree limbs were blown down including a one foot diameter tree limb that was blown down onto power lines.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindLa Grange-Video showed a 1 to 2 foot diameter tree snapped several feet above ground, which fell onto a parked car near the intersection of Elm Avenue and LaGrange Road.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindLa Grange-Tree limbs were blown down into a roadway.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindLa Grange-Trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down in the north and northeast portions of La Grange.
March 2024HailLa Grange-no account filed
June 2010HailLa Grange-no account filed
March 2004HailLa Grange-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindLa Grange-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
Emmanuel Episcopal Church0.2 miles2017
Lyons Township Hall0.2 miles1978
George E. Purple House0.6 miles2005
Western Springs Water Tower1.5 miles1981
First Congregational Church of Western Springs1.6 miles2006
Grossdale Station1.7 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79000834 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.
  • 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.