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Photograph of Dempster-Skokie
Photograph by Zol87 from Chicago, Illinois, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Dempster Street Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“Dempster-Skokie, formerly known as Dempster, or Skokie, is an 'L' station on the CTA's Yellow Line at 5005 Dempster Street in Skokie, Illinois. It is one of three stops on the Yellow Line, and the line's western terminus.”

Wikipedia article Dempster-Skokie station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 621 National Register listings published here for Cook County · listed in 1996 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 5001 Dempster St., Skokie, 60077
  • When was it listed? February 1996
  • Category. building
  • Township. Niles township
  • National Register reference number. 95001005 - 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 Dempster Street Station: 5 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
Evanston City EngStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Morton Grove City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Niles City Dept of Public WorksStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Wilmette City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Winnetka City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this property

19 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Skokie, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 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 WindSkokie$50,000Numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown. Some trees and limbs fell on cars causing damage. A 40 foot tall tree was completely uprooted on Kolmar Street and fell onto a house. Twelve inch diameter tree limbs were blown down near Skokie Village Hall.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindSkokie$30,000Multiple reports of estimated wind gusts to around 70 mph came in from Skokie and Evanston. Three large trees were blown onto homes in Skokie.
January 2025FloodSkokie-From the Chicago311 site, multiple reports were received of minor street flooding in the Garfield Park and West Ridge neighborhoods of Chicago.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindSkokie-A large tree was blown down blocking Kilbourne Avenue.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindSkokie-A tree was partially uprooted and fell onto power lines. A large part of another tree snapped off and crushed a car.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindSkokie-A large tree was uprooted and fell onto a car.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindSkokie-Numerous trees were snapped and uprooted in Evanston.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindSkokie-Power lines were blown down in Skokie and in Evanston.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindSkokie-A large tree limb was blown down onto a CTA rail line.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindSkokie-Chicago Street and Sanitation Department received numerous reports of downed trees and limbs in the Edgewater, Rogers Park, and Andersonville neighborhoods.
June 2014Flash FloodSkokie-Up to six inches of flowing water was reported at Prospect Avenue and Harrison Street. A CoCoRaHS observer near Winnetka measured 2.19 inches of rain in 55 minutes while the ASOS at O'Hare measured 0.90 inches of rain in 20 minutes.
May 2012Flash FloodSkokie-The intersection of Howard Street and Western Avenue was closed due to flooding.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindSkokie-A 24-inch diameter tree was blown down at the intersection of Oakton Street and Wesley Avenue. Other trees were blown down in the area.
April 2023HailSkokie-no account filed
April 2020HailSkokie-no account filed
April 2010HailSkokie-no account filed
October 2006HailSkokie-no account filed
May 2000HailSkokie-no account filed
April 1996HailSkokie-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
Harrer Building0.9 miles1983
Building at 1305-1307 Judson Avenue1.4 miles1984
Forest, The, and Annex1.6 miles1984
Stoneleigh Manor1.6 miles1984
Herbert A. Dilg House1.6 miles2009
Hyatt House Hotel1.9 miles2013

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 95001005 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.