Built in 1857 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
From the record
“The McAuley School District No. 27 is a schoolhouse in Winfield Township, DuPage County, Illinois, 1.25 miles (2.01 km) west from West Chicago, Illinois. By the time the schoolhouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, District 27 was the last fully functioning one-room school district in Illinois.”
Wikipedia article McAuley School District No. 27, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 50 National Register listings published here for DuPage County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1857, Neoclassical architecture.
National Register reference number.82004890- 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.
The ground it stands on
1,175 words
This property stands in Wayne Township. History Of Dupage County (1857), published 1857 gives that township a chapter of its own.
The chapter covers the township.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so
expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words,
stray characters.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 6 fires within 5 miles of McAuley School District No. 27
between 2013 and 2014, 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
Debris and open burning
3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
4 workings within 5 miles of McAuley School District No. 27: 2 past producers, 2 plants.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Vermiculite. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
West Chicago, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 19 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 lightning.
The reports record 40 injuries. 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.
This tornado began in the Blackwell Forest Preserve in Warrenville and tracked southeastward through the south side of Wheaton before lifting soon after it entered the Morton Arboretum. The tornado primarily caused tree damage along its path, though it also caused some minor damage to signs at a shopping center.
A roughly 2 foot diameter tree was blown down in the 700 block of Elmwood Avenue, blocking the road. A 14 inch diameter tree limb was blown down just south of Elmwood Avenue. A 6 to 8 inch diameter tree limb was blown down in the 500 block of Elite Avenue.
Photos showed roof damage to a house on Elizabeth Street. A utility pole was damaged near the West Chicago High School. Numerous tree limbs were snapped off over several blocks of southern West Chicago, including some tree limbs one foot in diameter. One tree had almost all limbs removed from the top half. A flag pole was bent 35 degrees. Wind speeds were estimated to 75 mph.
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.
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.
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