BlockFrom the record
One of 621 National Register listings published here for Cook County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Oak Lawn School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
The listing
- Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 9526 S. Cook Ave., Oak Lawn, 60453
- When was it listed? November 1990
- Category. building
- Township. Worth township
- National Register reference number. 90001725 - 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
2 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Oak Lawn School in 2005, burning about 1 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/undetermined | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 June 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 20 May 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Oak Lawn School: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Worth Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Yard No. 22 Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
29 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak Lawn, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 21 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 flood, 1 flash flood. The reports record 5 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Lawn | 3 hurt | A large tent was blown down on 15 people at Greek Fest. Three people were injured. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Lawn | 2 hurt, $5,000 | Strong winds damaged the roof of St. Lawrence High School as well as to a nearby baseball field dugout. Two people near the dugout were injured. A man had part of the dugout roof land on his leg and a teenage boy was struck in the head by a brick. Both were were taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries. |
| November 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Lawn | $50,000 | A roof was blown off a gas station at 99th and Cicero. Tree limbs and power lines were blown down across town. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Lawn | - | Large tree limbs were broken near 102nd Street and Alice Court. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Lawn | - | A wind gust to 72 mph was measured. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Lawn | - | Multiple trees were blown down on the north side of Oak Lawn. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Lawn | - | A wind gust to 68 mph was measured. Tree limbs 2 inches in diameter were broken. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Lawn | - | Photos shared showed multiple large limbs snapped off of mature cottonwood trees at a park near 107th and Laramie Roads in Oak Lawn. |
| February 2024 | Hail | Oak Lawn | - | A report of 1.5 hail was relayed via mPING. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Lawn | - | A large tree limb was blown down blocking portions of 97th Street and Menard Avenue. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Lawn | - | A photo shared on social media showed a healthy tree limb roughly five inches in diameter snapped near Cicero Avenue and 106th Street. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Lawn | - | A tree and wires were blown down on Kostner Avenue around 99th Street. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Lawn | - | A large tree was uprooted in Oak Lawn. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Lawn | - | A tree was blown down on Central Avenue south of 95th Street. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Lawn | - | Large trees and tree limbs were blown down, some blocking roads. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Lawn | - | A four inch diameter tree branch fell through a windshield and a six inch diameter branch fell onto a car. Near 97th and Kenneth, a one foot diameter branch from a healthy maple tree was blown down. Scattered tree limbs of varying sizes were blown down throughout town. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Lawn | - | Tree branches were reported down across Oak Lawn. Winds were estimated to 60 mph. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Oak Lawn | - | Multiple reports of hail to the size of quarters were received from Oak Lawn. |
| May 2012 | Flash Flood | Oak Lawn | - | Torrential rain fell across portions of southern Cook County causing roadways to be closed due to flooding. Kedzie Avenue was flooded between 87th Street and 103rd Street. Cicero Avenue was also closed near 103rd Street. A report from a mile south-southwest of Oak Lawn indicated that 2.70 inches of rain fell in just an hour with a storm total of 3.20 inches. Another report from 3 miles southwest of Midway Airport indicated that 0.85 inches of rain fell in 15 minutes. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Lawn | - | Approximately 50 trees were blown down or damaged in Oak Lawn. Numerous tree limbs were also blown down. Wind gusts were estimated between 70 and 80 mph. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Lawn | - | A large tree was blown down across the road near 103rd Street and Kostner Avenue. |
| June 2010 | Flood | Oak Lawn | - | Six to seven inches of standing water was reported at the intersection of 103rd Street and Cicero Avenue. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Lawn | - | Tree limbs were blown down near Southwest Highway and 53rd Court with estimated wind gusts to 75 mph. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Lawn | - | Blowing wood planks from a building under construction in the 5200 block of west 95th street caused damage and broken windows to garages in the area. Tree limbs were also blown down. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Lawn | - | Thunderstorm winds tore the roof off a three-story apartment building. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Oak Lawn | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Oak Lawn | - | no account filed |
| March 2017 | Hail | Oak Lawn | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Hail | Oak Lawn | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burr Oak Cemetery Historic District | 3.8 miles | 2026 | |
| Chrysler Village | 4.0 miles | 2014 | |
 | Ridge Historic District | 4.3 miles | 1976 |
 | Auburn Gresham Bungalow Historic District | 5.0 miles | 2012 |
 | Brainerd Bungalow Historic District | 5.0 miles | 2016 |
| Gage Park Bungalow Historic District | 5.7 miles | 2020 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 90001725 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.
- 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.