Cook County, Illinois

42nd Precinct Police Station 7th District Police Station Abbott, Robert S., House Adler Planetarium Akin, Mrs. Henry F., House Alta Vista Terrace Historic District America Fore Building American State Bank Anderson-Carlson Building Andersonville Commercial Historic District Andridge Apartments Aquitania, The Arcade Building Armour Square Auburn Gresham Bungalow Historic District Auditorium Building, Roosevelt University Austin Historic District Austin Town Hall Park Historic District Automatic Electric Company Building AVR 661 B.F. Goodrich Company Showroom Bach, Emil, House Baha'i Temple Bailey-Michelet House Baker, Frank J., House Balaban & Katz Uptown Theatre Balaban and Katz Chicago Theatre Baldwin, Hiram, House Banta, Nathaniel Moore, House Baptist Retirement Home Barrington Historic District Belden Stratford Hotel Belmont-Sheffield Trust and Savings Bank Building Belmonte Flats Berger Park Bersbach, Alfred, House Berwyn Health Center Berwyn Municipal Building Best Brewing Company of Chicago Building Biograph Theater Building Blackstone Hotel Bloom Township High School Bohemian National Cemetery Bohlander, Jacob, House Boyce Building Brainerd Bungalow Historic District Brigham, Edmund D., House Brown, Roger, Home and Studio Bryn Mawr Avenue Historic District Buckingham Building Buena Park Historic District Building at 1101-1113 Maple Avenue Building at 1209-1217 Maple Avenue Building at 1301-1303 Judson Avenue Building at 1305-1307 Judson Avenue Building at 1316 Maple Avenue Building at 14-16 Pearson Street Building at 1401-1407 Elmwood Avenue Building at 1505-1509 Oak Avenue Building at 1929-1931 Sherman Avenue Building at 2440 N. Lakeview Avenue Building at 2517 Central Street Building at 2519 Central Street Building at 2523 Central Street Building at 257 East Delaware Building at 320 West Oakdale Avenue Building at 399 West Fullerton Parkway Building at 417-419 Lee Street Building at 548-606 Michigan Avenue Building at 5510 North Sheridan Building at 813-815 Forest Avenue Building at 900 West Lake Street Building at 923-925 Michigan Avenue Building at 999 Michigan, 200 Lee Buildings at 1104-1110 Seward Buildings at 815-817 Brummel and 819-821 Brummel Buildings at 860-880 Lake Shore Drive Burlingham Building Burnham, Anita Willets, Log House Bush Temple of Music Calhoun, Mr. James Kent, House Calumet Park Calumet Plant, R. R. Donnelly & Sons Company Carling Hotel Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Carter, Frederick B., Jr., House Castle Tower Apartments Castlewood Terrace Central Berwyn Bungalow Historic District Central Manufacturing District-Original East Historic District Central Manufacturing District-Pershing Road Development Historic District Central Park Theater Cermak Road Bridge Historic District Cermak, Anton, House Chapin and Gore Building Charles Warrington Earle School Charnley, James, House Chicago and North Western Railroad Depot Chicago and North Western Railway Power House Chicago and Northwestern Depot Chicago Avenue Water Tower and Pumping Station Chicago Beach Hotel Chicago Bee Building Chicago Board of Trade Building Chicago Club Chicago Federal Center Chicago Harbor Lighthouse Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium District Chicago Park Boulevard System Historic District Chicago Portage National Historic Site Chicago Public Library, Central Building Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal Historic District Chicago Savings Bank Building Chicago Telephone Company Kedzie Exchange Chicago Varnish Company Building Chrysler Village Church of the Epiphany Clarke, Henry B., House Clayson, George, House Cluever, Richard, House Coca Cola Company Building Colonnade Court Columbus Park Columbus Park Community House Compton, Arthur H., House Congress Theater Continental and Commercial National Bank Conway Building Cook County Criminal Court Building Cook County Hospital Administration Building Coonley, Avery, House Cornell Square Covent Hotel Crane Company Building Creamery Package Manufacturing Company Building Crow Island School Curtiss-Wright Aeronautical University Building Davis Square Davis Theater Dawes, Charles Gates, House Dawson Brothers Plant De Priest, Oscar Stanton, House Dearborn Station Delaware Building Dempster Street Station Des Plaines Methodist Camp Ground Dewes, Francis J., House Dilg, Herbert A., House Dorhmann-Buckman House Douglas Tomb State Memorial Drake Hotel Drucker, Robert and Suzanne, House Drummond, William E., House Dryden, George B., House Du Sable, Jean Baptiste Point, Homesite Dunham, Arthur J., House East Park Towers East Ravenswood Historic District East Village Historic District Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church Edgewater Beach Apartments Edison Park Eighth Regiment Armory Emmanuel Episcopal Church Emmel Building Episcopal Church of the Atonement and Parish House, The Epworth Methodist Episcopal Church Eugene Field Park Evanston Lakeshore Historic District Evanston Ridge Historic District Evanston Towers Fairbanks, Morse and Company Building Falconer Bungalow Historic District Field Museum of Natural History Field, Marshall, Garden Apartments First Congregational Church of Austin First Congregational Church of Western Springs First Congregational Church, Des Plaines First Self-Sustaining Nuclear Reaction, Site of Fisher Building Flamingo-On-The-Lake Apartments Flat Iron Building Flower, Lucy, Technical High School for Girls Foley, Jennie, Building Ford Airport Hanger Forest, The, and Annex Fort Dearborn Hotel Forum, The Fountain Plaza Apartments Four Nineteen Building Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago Frangenheim, William, House Frank Lloyd Wright-Prairie School of Architecture Historic District Frank Lloyd Wright-Prairie School of Architecture Historic District (Boundary Increase) Fuller Park Gage Group-Ascher, Keith, and Gage Buildings Gage Park Bungalow Historic District Gale, Mrs. Thomas H., House Gale, Walter, House Garden Homes Historic District Garfield Park Gauler, John, Houses Germania Club Getty Tomb Gibbs, William and Caroline, House Glasner, William A., House Glessner, John J., House Gold Coast Historic District Goldblatt Bros. Department Store Graceland Cemetery Grand Crossing Park Grant Park Greeley, Dr. Paul W. and Eunice, House Greenwood, The Griffiths, John W., Mansion Groesbeck, Abraham, House Gross Point Village Hall Grossdale Station Grosse Point Light Station Grow, Caroline, House Gunderson Historic District Guyon Hotel Halsted, Ann, House Hamilton Park Hangar 1, Naval Air Station-Glenview Hanson, Anton, E., House Harrer Building Hatch, William H., House Haymarket Martyrs' Monument Heller, Isadore H., House Hermitage Apartments Hermosa Bungalow Historic DIstrict Heurtley, Arthur, House Hillcrest Apartment Hines, Edward Jr., Veterans Administration Hospital Historic District Hinman Apartments Hitchcock, Charles, Hall Hofmann Tower Hohf, Dr. Robert, House Holy Name Cathedral Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Cathedral and Rectory Home Bank and Trust Company Homestead, The Hotel Del Prado Hotel St. Benedict Flats Hotel Windermere East Hull House Humboldt Park Humphrey, John, House Hyde Park-Kenwood Historic District Hyde Park-Kenwood Historic District (Boundary Increase II) Hyde Park-Kenwood Historic District (Boundary Increase) IBM Building Illinois Industrial School for Girls Illinois Institute of Technology Academic Campus Immaculata High School Independence Park Indian Boundary Park Inland Steel Building International Tailoring Company Building Irving, James B., House Jackson Park Historic Landscape District and Midway Plaisance Jackson Shore Apartments Jefferson Park Jeffery-Cyril Historic District Jewelers' Building Jewish People's Institute Judson, The K-Town Historic District Kehilath Anshe Ma'ariv Synagogue Kenilworth Club Kennicott's Grove Kent, Sydney, House Kenwood Evangelical Church Kimball, William W., House King, Patrick J., House Kosciuszko Park Field House Krause Music Store Kuppenheimer, Louis B., Jr., House La Grange Village Historic District Lake Shore Apartments Lake-Side Terrace Apartments Lakeside Press Building Lakeview Historic District Lakeview Historic District (Boundary Increase) Lakewood Balmoral Historic District Larson, Mads C., House Lathrop, Bryan, House Lathrop, Julia C., Homes Lawson, Victor F., House YMCA Leaning Tower of Niles, The Legler, Henry E., Regional Branch of the Chicago Public Library Leiter II Building Lemont Central Grade School Lemont Downtown Historic District Lemont Methodist Episcopal Church Lillie, Frank R., House Lincoln Park Lincoln Park Lily Pool Lincoln Park, South Pond Refectory Lindemann and Hoverson Company Showroom and Warehouse Linden Avenue Terminal Lloyd, Henry Demarest, House Logan Square Boulevards Historic District Loop Retail Historic District Lou Mitchell's Restaurant Loucks, Charles N., House Ludington Building Lumber Exchange Building and Tower Addition Lynch, Timothy J., House Lyons Township Hall Madlener, Albert F., House Maher, George W., House Malden Towers Mandel Brothers Warehouse Building Manhattan Building Manor House Maple Court Apartments Mark Twain Hotel Marquette Building Marshall Field and Company Store Marshall Field Company Store Marshall Hotel Marywood Academy Masonic Temple Building Masonic Temple Building Maverick Lloyd, Lola, House Maxwell-Briscoe Automobile Company Showroom Mayfair Apartments Maynard, Isaac N., Rowhouses Maywood Fire Department Building McClurg Building McJunkin, William, House Meekerville Historic District Melwood Apartments Michigan-Lee Apartments Michigan-Wacker Historic District Midwest Athletic Club Miller, Allan, House Millikan, Robert A., House Millward, Caroline, House Monadnock Block Montgomery Ward Company Complex Montgomery, John Rogerson, House Morton, J. Sterling, High School East Auditorium Motley, John Lothrop, School Motor Row Historic District Muller House Mundelein College Skyscraper Building Municipal Courts Building Narragansett, The Neuville, The New Masonic Building and Oriental Theater Nichols, Harry H., House Nickerson, Samuel, House Noble-Seymour-Crippen House North Mayfair Bungalow Historic District North Wells Street Historic District Northeast Evanston Historic District Northwestern Terra Cotta Company Building Norwood Park Historical District Notre Dame de Chicago O'Grady, Mr. J. William de Coursey, House Oak Circle Historic District Oak Park Conservatory Oak Park Village Hall Oak Ridge Apartments Oakton Gables Oakton Historic District Octagon House Old Chicago Historical Society Building Old Colony Buildings Old Main Building Old Stone Gate of Chicago Union Stockyards Old Town Triangle Historic District Oliver Building Olympia Fields Country Club One LaSalle Street Building Orchestra Hall Orth House Otis Elevator Company Factory Building Ouilmette North Historic District Overton Hygienic Building Overton, Anthony, Elementary School Pacesetter Gardens Historic District Page Brothers Building Palmer Park Palmolive Building Parkway Garden Homes Passionist Fathers Monastery Patten, Charles H., House Pattington Apartments Peabody, Elizabeth, School Peoples Gas Building Perkins, Dwight, House Pickwick Theater Building Pilsen Historic District Pleasant Home Poinsetta Apartments Polish National Alliance Headquarters Polish Roman Catholic Union of America Pontiac Building Portage Park Portage Park Bungalow Historic District Prairie Avenue District Produce Terminal Cold Storage Company Building Promontory Apartments Promontory Point Pulaski Park and Fieldhouse Pullman Historic District Purple, George E., House Pyle-National Company Plant Quigley Preparatory Seminary Quinn Chapel of the A.M.E. Church Railway Exchange Building Ramsey, Charles N., and Herry E. Weese House Ravenswood Manor Historic District Raymond M. Hilliard Center Historic District Raymond Park Apartments Reebie Moving and Storage Company Rees, Harriet F., House Reid House Reid Murdoch Building Reliance Building Ridge Boulevard Apartments Ridge Grove Ridge Historic District Ridge Manor Ridgeland-Oak Park Historic District Ridgewood Riis, Jacob A., Park River Forest Historic District Riverside Landscape Architecture District Robertson, John, Jr., House Robie, Frederick C., House Robinson House Roche, Martin-John Tait House Rogers Park Manor Bungalow Historic District Roloson, Robert, Houses Rookery Building Rookwood Apartments Room 405, George Herbert Jones Laboratory, The University of Chicago Ropp-Grabill House Rosehill Cemetery Administration Building and Entry Gate Rosenwald Apartment Building Rothschild, A. M., & Company Store Roycemore School Rozek, Theodore, House S.R. Crown Hall Sauganash Historic District Schoenhofen Brewery Historic District Schorsch Irving Park Gardens Historic District Schulze Baking Company Plant Schurz, Carl, High School Schweikher, Paul, House and Studio Scoville Place Sears, Roebuck and Company Complex Second Presbyterian Church Shakespeare Garden Shedd Park Fieldhouse Shedd, John G., Aquarium Sheffield Historic District Sheffield Historic District (Boundary Increase II) Sheffield Historic District (Boundary Increase III) Sheffield Historic District (Boundary Increase) Sheridan Park Historic District Sheridan Plaza Hotel Sheridan Square Apartments Sherman Park Shoreland Hotel Shoreline Apartments Silhan, Mr. Robert, House Silversmith Building Singer Building Smith, J. P., Shoe Company Plant Soffel, Albert, House Soldier Field Somerset Hotel South Dearborn Street-Printing House Row Historic District South Loop Printing House District South Park Manor Historic District South Shore Beach Apartments South Shore Bungalow Historic District South Shore Country Club South Side Community Art Center South Water Market Spiegel Office Building St. Ignatius College St. James Catholic Church and Cemetery St. Luke's Hospital Complex St. Matthew Evangelical Lutheran School St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church St. Thomas Church and Convent Steuben Club, The Stoneleigh Manor Stony Island Trust and Savings Bank Building Storkline Furniture Corporation Factory Story-Camp Rowhouses Strand Hotel Strauss, Jesse L., Estate Studebaker Building Sullivan, Joseph P. O., House Sunderlage Farm Smokehouse Sutherland Hotel Swedish American Telephone Company Building Swedish Club of Chicago Swift House Sylvan Road Bridge Taft, Lorado, Midway Studios Talman West Ridge Bungalow Historic District Teich, Curt, and Company Building Theurer-Wrigley House Third Church of Christ, Scientist Thomas, Frank, House Thompkins, Jennie S., House Thorne, George R., House Tomek, F.F., House Tree Studio Building and Annexes Tri-Taylor Historic District Tri-Taylor Historic District (Boundary Increase) Trumbull Park Trustees System Service Building Tudor Manor Twin Tower Sanctuary U-505 (IX C U-Boat) Union Park Congregational Church and Carpenter Chapel Union Park Hotel United States Custom House United States Post Office-Chicago Unity Hall Unity Temple University Apartments Uptown Broadway Building Uptown Square Historic District USS SILVERSIDES (SS 236) National Historic Landmark Vassar Swiss Underwear Company Building Vesta Accumulator Company Building Vial, Robert, House Victory Sculpture Villa Historic District Villa Historic District (Boundary Increase) Vogt, Karl, Building Wabash Avenue YMCA Waller, William, House Walser, Joseph J., House Warner, Seth, House Warren, Edward Kirk, House and Garage Washington Park Washington Square Washington Square Historic District Wells-Barnett, Ida B., House West Argyle Street Historic District West Argyle Street Historic District (Boundary Increase) West Burton Place Historic District West Chatham Bungalow Historic District West Jackson Boulevard District West Jackson Historic District (Boundary Increase) West Loop-LaSalle Street Historic District West Pullman Elementary School Western Springs Water Tower Westminster Wheeler-Kohn House Wheeler-Magnus Round Barn Wholesale Florists Exchange Wicker Park Historic District Wild Flower and Bird Sanctuary in Mahoney Park Willard, Frances, House Williams, Dr. Daniel Hale, House Winslow, William H., House And Stable Woman's Christian Temperance Union Administration Building Woman's Club of Evanston Wooden Alley Wright, Frank Lloyd, House and Studio Wrightwood Bungalow Historic District Wrigley Field Yale, The YMCA Hotel Yondorf Block and Hall Young, Joshua P., House

(Former) Cosmopolitan State Bank (Former) Marshfield Trust and Savings Bank 116 W. Euclid 1877 Keystone from City Hall Building 227 East Walton Place Apartment Building 333 North Michigan Building 609 N. Dunton 910 South Michigan A Road Well Traveled Aaron Montgomery Ward Gardens Abandoned Shoreline of Lake Michigan Abraham Lincoln Monument Alan Mathison Turing Alexander Robinson Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool Allan Pinkerton Allerton Hotel Alvin Ailey American Book Company Building American Indian - Potawatomi Tribe Eagle Dancer American Veterans for Equal Rights Military Memorial Archange Ouilmette Arthur J. Dunham Centennial Home Auditorium Building Audre Lorde Augustus Garrett Automobile Love Affair Barbara Jordan Bataan- Corregidor Memorial Bridge Battery A Chicago Light Artillery Battle of Fort Dearborn Bayard Rustin Benny Goodman Bertha Honore Palmer and Potter Palmer Berwyn, Illinois Bessie Coleman Billy Strayhorn Birthplace of Ernest Hemingway Birthplace of Oak Park Blackstone Hotel Brewster Apartments Brooks Building Bryan Lathrop House Burial Site of Josette Beaubien Camp Douglas Camp Thornton #2605 and the Civil Conservation Corps Carbide and Carbon Building Catherine and Jean-Baptiste Point du Sable Catholic Cemetery Central Station Fragments Charles E. Merriam Center for Public Administration Charles N. Loucks House Charles R. Walgreen Sr. Chess Records Office and Studio Chess Records Recording Studio Chicago & North Western Railway Powerhouse Chicago Bee Building Chicago Board of Trade Battery Chicago Defender Building Chicago Heights Chicago Remembers Chicago River Chicago Water Tower Chicago's First Movable Bridge Churchill Corner City Cemetery Claude Seymour Reebie Co. B. 1st Reg. Ill. L't Artillery. Cole Porter Columbia Yacht Club Confederate Mound Monument Continental and Commercial Bank Building Couch Tomb Couch Tomb Courthouse Plaza Crane Company Building Cruising the Strip David Kato Kisule Dearborn Street Dedicated to Adam Brown DeWitt Clinton Cregier Dixie Highway Dixie Highway connected Chicago to Miami in the early days of automobile travel Douglas Plaza Dr. Sally K. Ride Dr. Tom Waddell Dra. Antonia Pantoja Earl Seymour Wharton Reebie Early Businesses in Old Town (#6) Early Prominent Residents of Old Town (#2) Eating on the Run Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church Edison Park World War I Memorial Elks Memorial Headquarters Building Ellis Chesbrough Emil Bach House Enrico and Laura Fermi Ernest Hemingway Boyhood Home Ernie Banks, "Mr. Cub" Essanay Studios Eternal Flame Memorial Eugene Williams Memorial Fairbanks Morse & Company Building Finley Peter Dunne Firefighters Memorial First Jewish House of Worship First McDonald's Franchise First Post Office Florsheim Shoe Company Building Former Chicago Historical Society Building Former Site of Eden Inn Former Site of Soo Line Hotel Former Site of the “Zum Deutschen Eck” Restaurant Fort Dearborn Fr. Mychal Judge Frances E. Willard Frank Kameny Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio Freddie Mercury Frida Kahlo Gauler Twin Houses George B. Armstrong George Halas George Pullman George S. Bangs Getty Tomb Grace W. Trout Grant Park Graves Family Monument Great World War Green Bay Road Greenwood Row Houses Grosse Point Light Station Gwendolyn Brooks: The Oracle of Bronzeville Hannah Greenebaum Solomon Harold Washington Harold Washington Harrer Park Harris and Selwyn Theaters Harvey Milk Haymarket Martyrs’ Monument Henry B. Clarke House Henry Gerber House Hidden Truths Horse-Shoe Inn Hotel Somerset Hotel St. Benedict Flats Ida B. Wells-Barnett Illinois & Michigan Canal Indian Boundary Park Indian Boundary Village Indian Trading Post Irna Phillips Jack Brickhouse James Baldwin James Charnley House Jane Addams Jane Addams' Hull House Jane Addams' Hull-House and Dining Hall Jean Baptiste Beaubien Jean-Baptiste Pointe DuSable John A. Logan John A. "Jack" Johnson John B. Murphy Memorial John Dewey John J. Glessner House John Peter Altgeld John Wellborn Root Joseph and Betty Kettlestrings Joseph Kettlestrings Joseph R. Scott Josephine Baker Julius Rosenwald Juvenile Court of Cook County Building Keith Haring Kennicott House Kennison Boulder Monument Kenwood Kenwood United Church of Christ Kwanusila Lake View High School Lake-Franklin Group Landmark Landings László Moholy-Nagy Lincoln Park Lincoln Park Transitions Lincoln's Nomination Site Lion House, Lincoln Park Zoo Logan Square • Palmer Square Lorraine Hansberry Louis Henri Sullivan Louis Henry Sullivan Louis Jolliet & Père Jacques Marquette Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong Louise DeKoven Bowen Ludington Building Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Mahalia Jackson Mahlon D. Ogden Residence Margaret Anderson Marsha P. Johnson Marshall Field and Company Building Mary Bartelme, Illinois’ First Female Judge Masaryk Memorial Monument Matteson, Illinois Maxwell Street McCormick Double House McKinley Morganfield "Muddy Waters" Melamerson Athletic Field Melissia Ann Elam Home Mid-North District Milton L. Olive III Park Monument of the Millennium Moore-Dugal Residence Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini Nat "King" Cole Nicholaus Copernicus North Chicago Hospital Building Oak Park Station Obama Kissing Rock Office and Studio of Perkins, Fellows & Hamilton, architects Old Fort Dearborn Old Northlake Library site Old Town and The Great Fire (#3) Old Town Architecture Reflects Neighborhood History (#10) Old Town Triangle Old Town's Early Settlers (#11) Old Town’s Entrepreneur Spirit (#1) Old Treaty Elm Old Water Tower Oscar DePriest Oscar Wilde Overton Hygienic Building Oz Park Palmer House Hotel Park Forest, Illinois Patterson-McCormick Mansion Paul Muni Pauli Murray Peace Triumphant Pearl M. Hart Percy L. Julian Philip Rogers Home Site Pilgrim Baptist Church Pizzeria Uno Portage Creek Passage Portage Passage Potter's Field Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Q.S.M.V. Abegweit Quinn Chapel Regeneration Reinaldo Arenas Rene Robert Cavalier Sieur de La Salle Residence of Charles Gates Dawes Reverend Georg L. Mulfinger Reverend J. Ward Morrison Boulevard Richard Wright Richard Wright House River Forest, Illinois Robert McCormick Robert S. Abbott Rookery Building Rosehill Cemetery Entrance Rowe Building Ruth Ellis Ruth Page Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini Sauganash Hotel - Chicago - 1831 Sauganash Veterans Memorial Sauk Village Scoville Park is the Heart of Oak Park Scoville Park's Designer: Jens Jensen Second City Second Presbyterian Church Senator William J. Connors Sgt. Leonard Matlovich Shelter Building Site of Absolem Wells Cabin Site of Fort Dearborn Site of the First Self-sustaining Controlled Nuclear Chain Reaction Site of the Haymarket Tragedy Site of the Sauganash Hotel/Wigwam Soldiers & Sailors Monument South Michigan Avenue Motor Row South Water Street St. Boniface Union Soldiers Monument St. Patrick's Church State Street State Street Stephen A. Douglas Memorial Stephen A. Douglas: Douglas and Lincoln Stephen A. Douglas: The Chicago Years Stephen A. Douglas: The Douglas Tomb Stephen Arnold Douglas Stonewall Sunset Cafe Supreme Life Building Sylvester Sylvia Rivera Terminal Building The 1992 River West Gas Fires The American Legion Memorial The Annoyance Theatre The Arcade The Baha'i House Of Worship And Welcome Center The Benjamin Franklin School (#5) The Blues Trail: Mississippi to Chicago The Boulevard System The Boulevard System The Boulevard System The Chicago Board of Trade's Statues The Chicago Fire Department - Engine Company No. 27 (#7) The Chicago Portage The Chicago Public Library Cultural Center The Christmas Tree Ship The Churches of Old Town (#8) The DePaul Center The Discoverers The Donohue Building The Eastland Disaster The Forum (1897) The Great Migration Centennial, 1916-2016 The Green Bay Trail The Grove The Harlem Renaissance The Historic Maywood Home for Soldiers' Widows The History of Austin Gardens The Honorable Harold Washington The Honorable Joanne H. Alter The Ida B. Wells Homes The Legacy of Matthew Shepard The Marx Brothers The Morton Building / Hotel Blake The Nine Dragon Wall in Chicago’s Chinatown The Norway Building The Pink Triangle The Pioneers The Platt Luggage Building The Sisters of Mercy The Spirit of the Fighting Yank The Standard Time System in the United States The Water Tower & Great Chicago Fire Third Church Building This was "Countryside" Thomas A. Dorsey Thomas Edwin Greenfield Ransom Trail Blazer Tree Studios Tribune Tower Trinity Slovak Lutheran Church Trustees System Service Building Two Spirit Union Civil War Soldiers Unity Hall Victory, World War I Black Soldiers’ Memorial Viet Nam Memorial Visionary Vito Russo Wacker Drive Walgreens Walt Whitman Washington Block Washington Park Racetrack Washington Square Park Waveland Clock Tower Welcome to Bronzeville West Side Grounds Western Wheel Works Factory and Dr. Scholl Footwear Factory (#4) Wheeler–Kohn House White Castle #16 Wise Road Wooden Alley World War I Memorial World War I Monument: Peace Triumphant World War II Memorial Wrigley Field WWI Memorial "Barmaids Ordinance" "Original Professors’ Row" “Hubbard’s Folly” “Rites of Spring”
Cook County, located in the northeastern part of Illinois, has a rich and vibrant history that dates back centuries. The area was first inhabited by Native American tribes, including the Potawatomi, Miami, and Sauk, who utilized the abundant natural resources of the region for their livelihoods.

European settlement of Cook County began in the late 18th century with the arrival of French explorers and traders. However, it was not until the early 19th century that the permanent settlement of the region started to take shape. In 1831, the area was officially organized as Cook County, named after Daniel Cook, an early attorney and politician.

The construction of the Illinois and Michigan Canal in the 1830s played a significant role in the development of Cook County. This waterway connected the Illinois River to Lake Michigan, making Chicago a crucial transportation hub and contributing to its rapid growth. The county's population surged, attracting immigrants from around the world who sought work in industries like meatpacking, steel manufacturing, and brewing.

Throughout its history, Cook County has been a focal point of notable events and achievements. It was in Cook County that the iconic Chicago Fire of 1871 broke out, resulting in significant destruction but also paving the way for the city's subsequent architectural and urban redevelopment. The county was also key to the rise of the labor and civil rights movements, with significant protests and strikes occurring throughout the 20th century.

Today, Cook County is the most populous county in Illinois and home to the city of Chicago, a global center of commerce, culture, and innovation. It continues to evolve and adapt, with diverse communities, renowned cultural institutions, and a dynamic economy that contributes to its reputation as a vibrant and influential county.
Brief timeline of the history of Cook County, Illinois:

  • 1830: Cook County is established as a separate county in the state of Illinois.
  • 1835: The city of Chicago is incorporated within Cook County.
  • 1840: The population of Cook County reaches over 10,000.
  • 1850: The Illinois Central Railroad is completed, connecting Chicago to the rest of the country.
  • 1871: The Great Chicago Fire destroys a large portion of the city, including parts of Cook County.
  • 1889: The Chicago Board of Trade Building, the world's first modern skyscraper, is completed in Chicago.
  • 1920: The population of Cook County surpasses 3 million.
  • 1933: The beginning of the prohibition era leads to increased organized crime activities in Cook County, notably led by Al Capone.
  • 1955: The construction of the Eisenhower Expressway begins, marking the start of an extensive highway system in Cook County.
  • 1969: The Sears Tower (now Willis Tower) is completed in Chicago, becoming the tallest building in the world at the time.
  • 1971: The Richard J. Daley Center, a prominent government building, is completed in Chicago.
  • 1995: The Chicago Bulls, with Michael Jordan, win their fourth NBA championship, bringing recognition and pride to Cook County.
  • 2016: Chicago experiences a surge in violence and homicides, leading to increased efforts to address and reduce crime in Cook County.

This timeline provides a condensed summary of the historical journey of Cook County, Illinois.