Photograph of Bloom High School — Photograph by Zol87 from Chicago, Illinois, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Bloom Township High School

Built in 1900 (Art Deco architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Bloom High School is a public school in Chicago Heights, Illinois. It is part of Bloom Township High School District 206.”
Wikipedia article Bloom High School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 621 National Register listings published here for Cook County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1900, Art Deco architecture.

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

The listing

Address. 10th St., Dixie Hwy. and Chicago Heights St., Chicago Heights, 60411
When was it listed? June 1982
Category. building
Township. Bloom township
When was it built? 1900
Architectural style. Art Deco architecture
National Register reference number. 82002527 - 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

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Bloom Township High School: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Thorton Plant Lime	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Brownell Improvement Co Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Chicago Hghts City Eng	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Thornton Underground Mine No. 2	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Thorton Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this property

5 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chicago Heights, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2019 and 2026: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2026	Flash Flood	South Chicago Heights	-	Vehicles were stuck in flood waters just west of the intersection of 34th Avenue and Kings Road due to flooding. Video showed a vehicle stranded in flood waters beneath an underpass near Emerald Avenue and East Lincoln Highway. Minor flooding was reported on roadways in Chicago Heights. Thorn Creek in Glenwood reached minor flood stage. Rainfall of 3.06 inches was reported in Park Forest.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	South Chicago Heights	-	A roof was blown off of a building near Sauk Trail and Holeman Ave in Steger.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	South Chicago Heights	-	Sporadic straight line wind damage occurred across South Chicago Heights and continued east to State Street.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Chicago Heights	-	A 45 foot tall Pine tree was blown down in Chicago Heights.
June 2019	Flash Flood	Chicago Heights	-	Photos showed Thorn Creek flowing over 26th Street.

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

5 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Flat Iron Building	0.9 miles	2003
Olympia Fields Country Club	2.1 miles	2001
The Rockwell House	3.2 miles	2024
Ravisloe Country Club	3.7 miles	2021
Ford Airport Hanger	5.8 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82002527 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cook County	All 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.