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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Chicago, Illinois

 
Clickable Map of Cook County, Illinois and Immediately Adjacent Jurisdictions image/svg+xml 2019-10-06 U.S. Census Bureau, Abe.suleiman; Lokal_Profil; HMdb.org; J.J.Prats/dc:title> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Usa_counties_large.svg Cook County, IL (837) DuPage County, IL (43) Kane County, IL (52) Lake County, IL (67) McHenry County, IL (38) Will County, IL (142) Lake County, IN (71) Porter County, IN (36) Berrien County, MI (82)  CookCounty(837) Cook County (837)  DuPageCounty(43) DuPage County (43)  KaneCounty(52) Kane County (52)  LakeCounty(67) Lake County (67)  McHenryCounty(38) McHenry County (38)  WillCounty(142) Will County (142)  LakeCountyIndiana(71) Lake County (71)  PorterCounty(36) Porter County (36)  BerrienCountyMichigan(82) Berrien County (82)
Chicago is the county seat for Cook County
Chicago is in Cook County
      Cook County (837)  
ADJACENT TO COOK COUNTY
      DuPage County (43)  
      Kane County (52)  
      Lake County (67)  
      McHenry County (38)  
      Will County (142)  
      Lake County, Indiana (71)  
      Porter County, Indiana (36)  
      Berrien County, Michigan (82)  
 
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1 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Andersonville — Andersonville
2 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Andersonville — Andersonville School
3 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Andersonville — WWI Memorial
4 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Austin — American Elm (Memorial to George Washington)
5 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Austin — Austin VFW Post 2955 War Memorial
6 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Austin — Chieftan Statue
7 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Austin — F.R. Schock Houses — Chicago Landmark District
8 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Austin — Galewood Community War Memorial
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9 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Austin — Joseph Jacob Walser House — Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect; 1903 — Chicago Landmark —
10 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Avondale — Florsheim Shoe Company Building — Alfred S. Alschuler, architect • 1924-26 — Chicago Landmark —
11 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Back of the Yards — Leslie F. Orear
12 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Back of the Yards — The Fallen 21
13 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Back of the Yards — Union Stock Yard — Chicago — Est. 1865 —
14 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Back of the Yards — Union Stock Yard Gate — Burnham and Root, architects; Yard open: 1865-1971 — Chicago Landmark —
15 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Belmont Cragin — Jacob A. Riis — Reported damaged
16 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Bridgeport — Bridgeport and the Development of Chicago's Infrastructure — The Story of a Neighborhood
17 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Bridgeport — Lt. Joseph T. (Jay) McKeon Jr. Park
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18 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Bronzeville — Ida B. Wells-Barnett — July 16, 1862 — March 25, 1931 — Teacher, Journalist, Anti-Lynching Crusader, Women's Rights Activist, Civil Rights Pioneer —
19 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Bronzeville — Stephen Douglas — United States Senator (1813-1861) — Chicago Tribute —
20 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Canaryville — People of Canaryville — Reported damaged
21 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Dearborn Homes — 99 — Votes for Women — Road to the 19th Amendment — National Votes for Women Trail —
22 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas (Bronzeville) — Camp Douglas
23 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas (Bronzeville) — Chicago Bee Building — Chicago Landmark —
24 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas (Bronzeville) — Chicago Defender Building — Chicago Landmark —
25 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas (Bronzeville) — Douglas Plaza — Site of Civil War Camp Douglas — 1861-65 —
26 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas (Bronzeville) — Eugene Williams Memorial — Dedicated to All the Victims of the Race Riot That Began Near This Place
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27 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas (Bronzeville) — Ida B. Wells-Barnett — Chicago Tribute
28 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas (Bronzeville) — Overton Hygienic Building — Chicago Landmark
29 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas (Bronzeville) — Pilgrim Baptist Church — Chicago Landmark —
30 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas (Bronzeville) — Richard Wright — Chicago Tribute
31 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas (Bronzeville) — State Street
32 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas (Bronzeville) — Sunset Cafe — Chicago Landmark —
33 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas (Bronzeville) — Supreme Life Building — Chicago Landmark —
34 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas (Bronzeville) — The Boulevard System
35 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas (Bronzeville) — The Ida B. Wells Homes
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36 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas (Bronzeville) — Unity Hall — Chicago Landmark
37 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas (Bronzeville) — Victory, World War I Black Soldiers’ Memorial
38 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas (Bronzeville) — Welcome to Bronzeville
39 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Dunning — 09.11.2001
40 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Dunning — 9/11 Memorial
41 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Dunning — Civil War Veterans
42 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Dunning — Cook County Cemetery at Dunning — 1854
43 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Dunning — Cook County Poorhouse
44 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Dunning — Henry Horner — 1878 – 1940
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45 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Dunning — Orphaned and Abandoned Infants and Children
46 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Dunning — Read-Dunning Cemetery No. 3
47 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Dunning — The Cook County Insane Asylum
48 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Dunning — The Sick and Infirm at Dunning
49 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Dunning — Unidentified Victims of the 1871 Chicago Fire
50 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Dunning — Unknown and Itinerant Poor of Cook County
51 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Dunning — Veterans Memorial
52 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, East Garfield Park — Behold Thy Mother
53 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, East Garfield Park — Garfield Park
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54 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, East Garfield Park — Garfield Park
55 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, East Garfield Park — The Boulevard System
56 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, East Hyde Park — Harold Washington — Chicago Tribute —
57 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, East Side — East Side Veterans Memorial
58 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, East Side — Illinois-Indiana Boundary Marker
59 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Edison Park — Edison Park World War I Memorial
60 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Forest Glen — Mary Berkemeier Quinn Park-of-Trees — Established and maintained in perpetuity
61 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Forest Glen — Old Edgebrook — Chicago Landmark District
62 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Forest Glen — Old Treaty Elm
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63 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Forest Glen — Sauganash Veterans Memorial
64 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Forest Glen — Trinity Slovak Lutheran Church
65 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Garfield Park — 132nd Infantry Monument — 2nd Ill.
66 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Garfield Park — Finley Peter Dunne — Chicago Tribute —
67 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Garfield Park — Garfield Park
68 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Garfield Park — Garfield Park
69 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Garfield Park — Garfield Park
70 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Garfield Park — Garfield Park
71 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Garfield Park — Garfield Park
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72 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Garfield Park — Garfield Park
73 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Garfield Park — Garfield Park
74 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Garfield Park — Garfield Park Fieldhouse
75 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Garfield Park — Garfield Park Natural Area
76 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Garfield Park — Garfield Park Natural Area
77 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Garfield Park — Garfield Park Natural Area
78 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Garfield Park — George Halas — Chicago Tribute —
79 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Garfield Park — Norman Cornwall Memorial
80 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Garfield Park — The Boulevard System
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81 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Gold Coast — "Barmaids Ordinance"
82 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Gold Coast — Bertha Honore Palmer and Potter Palmer
83 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Gold Coast — Bryan Lathrop House — Chicago Landmark
84 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Gold Coast — Catholic Cemetery — Hidden Truths
85 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Gold Coast — Churchill Corner
86 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Gold Coast — Fisher Studio Houses — Andrew Rebori, architect; 1936 — Chicago Landmark —
87 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Gold Coast — Irna Phillips — Chicago Tribute —
88 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Gold Coast — James Charnley House
89 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Gold Coast — John Wellborn Root — Chicago Tribute —
90 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Gold Coast — Louise DeKoven Bowen — Chicago Tribute —
91 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Gold Coast — Patterson-McCormick Mansion
92 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Gold Coast — Robert McCormick — Chicago Tribute —
93 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Gold Coast — St. Chrysostom's Church
94 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Gold Coast — The Three Arts Club — Holabird and Roche, architects; 1914 — Chicago Landmark —
95 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Gold Coast — Victorian Brownstone Residences
96 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Gold Coast — Walgreens — 1200 North Dearborn Street
97 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Gold Coast — Wooden Alley
98 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Grand Boulevard (Bronzeville) — Bessie Coleman — Chicago Tribute
99 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Grand Boulevard (Bronzeville) — Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church — Chicago Landmark —
100 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Grand Boulevard (Bronzeville) — Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong — Chicago Tribute

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