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Photograph of Park Ridge Youth Campus
Photograph by Teemu08 at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Illinois Industrial School for Girls

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Park Ridge Youth Campus, or just The Youth Campus, was a school and orphanage in Park Ridge, Illinois from 1908 to 2012. The campus is on the National Register of Historic Places as the Illinois Industrial School for Girls, and was also known as the Park Ridge School for Girls.”

Wikipedia article Park Ridge Youth Campus, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 621 National Register listings published here for Cook County · listed in 1998 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. 733 N. Prospect Ave., Park Ridge, 60068
  • When was it listed? August 1998
  • Category. district
  • Township. Maine township
  • National Register reference number. 98000978 - 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Illinois Industrial School for Girls: 2 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
Morton Grove City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Niles City Dept of Public WorksStone, 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 Park Ridge, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 lightning, 2 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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 1996LightningPark Ridge1 killedno account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindPark Ridge$25,000Tree limbs, utility poles and power lines were blown down. A large tree limb fell on a parked car causing significant damage.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindPark Ridge$25,000Trees and power lines were blown down, damage was reported to some houses.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindPark Ridge$10,000Part of a large tree was blown down on a house on Riverview Street in Des Plaines. Another tree was blown down on two parked cars on Circle Street. Numerous tree limbs were blown in other parts of Des Plaines.
October 2010LightningPark Ridge$2,000Lightning struck the chimney of a two story office building, causing bricks to collapse and shoot across the highway. A piece of brick shattered a window at another building. Busse Highway was shut down until debris could be removed.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindPark Ridge-A photo showed a tree limb 4 to 6 inches in diameter blown down.
April 2023HailPark Ridge-Golf ball size hail was reported near Cumberland Avenue and Touhy Avenue.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindPark Ridge-A photo shared on social media showed roof damage to an apartment complex.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindPark Ridge-Numerous tree limbs were blown down in Park Ridge. Wind gusts were estimated to 70 mph.
May 2018FloodPark Ridge-Minor backyard and street flooding was reported in Park Ridge. Rainfall of 1.01 inches was measured in 45 minutes.
August 2018Heavy RainPark Ridge-Rainfall of 2.12 inches was measure in 45 minutes.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindPark Ridge-A six inch tree was blown down and was blocking the road near Oakton Street and Algonquin Road. A four foot diameter tree was snapped at the base near Golf Road and Washington Road.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindPark Ridge-A large tree limb over one foot in diameter was blown down.
June 2009FloodPark Ridge-Two to three inches of water was reported on the southbound lanes of Interstate 294 near Touhy Avenue.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindPark Ridge-Trees were blown down.
June 2007HailPark Ridge-Penny to nickel size hail reported at Touhy Road and Prospect Avenue.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindPark Ridge-A spotter reported 55 to 60 mph winds. Tree limbs were blown down in Alsip and a limb fell on a car in Palos Heights.
June 2022HailPark Ridge-no account filed
April 2010HailPark Ridge-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
Pickwick Theater Building0.8 miles1975
Edison Park1.3 miles2007
Leaning Tower of Niles, The2.3 miles2019
Herbert A. Dilg House2.5 miles2009
Chicago and North Western Railroad Depot2.5 miles2001
Passionist Fathers Monastery2.6 miles2013

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98000978 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.