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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 (802) DuPage County, IL (37) 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 (80)  CookCounty(802) Cook County (802)  DuPageCounty(37) DuPage County (37)  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(80) Berrien County (80)
Chicago is the county seat for Cook County
Chicago is in Cook County
      Cook County (802)  
ADJACENT TO COOK COUNTY
      DuPage County (37)  
      Kane County (52)  
      Lake County (67)  
      McHenry County (38)  
      Will County (142)  
      Lake County, Indiana (71)  
      Porter County, Indiana (36)  
      Berrien County, Michigan (80)  
 
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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 — F.R. Schock Houses — Chicago Landmark District
7 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Austin — Galewood Community War Memorial
8 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Austin — Joseph Jacob Walser House — Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect; 1903 — Chicago Landmark —
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9 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Avondale — Florsheim Shoe Company Building — Alfred S. Alschuler, architect • 1924-26 — Chicago Landmark —
10 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Back of the Yards — Leslie F. Orear
11 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Back of the Yards — The Fallen 21
12 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Back of the Yards — Union Stock Yard — Chicago — Est. 1865 —
13 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Back of the Yards — Union Stock Yard Gate — Burnham and Root, architects; Yard open: 1865-1971 — Chicago Landmark —
14 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Belmont Cragin — Jacob A. Riis — Reported damaged
15 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Bridgeport — Bridgeport and the Development of Chicago's Infrastructure — The Story of a Neighborhood
16 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Bridgeport — Lt. Joseph T. (Jay) McKeon Jr. Park
17 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 —
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18 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Bronzeville — Stephen Douglas — United States Senator (1813-1861) — Chicago Tribute —
19 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Canaryville — People of Canaryville — Reported damaged
20 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Dearborn Homes — 99 — Votes for Women — Road to the 19th Amendment — National Votes for Women Trail —
21 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas (Bronzeville) — Camp Douglas
22 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas (Bronzeville) — Chicago Bee Building — Chicago Landmark —
23 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas (Bronzeville) — Chicago Defender Building — Chicago Landmark —
24 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas (Bronzeville) — Douglas Plaza — Site of Civil War Camp Douglas — 1861-65 —
25 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas (Bronzeville) — Eugene Williams Memorial — Dedicated to All the Victims of the Race Riot That Began Near This Place
26 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas (Bronzeville) — Ida B. Wells-Barnett — Chicago Tribute
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27 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas (Bronzeville) — Overton Hygienic Building — Chicago Landmark
28 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas (Bronzeville) — Pilgrim Baptist Church — Chicago Landmark —
29 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas (Bronzeville) — Richard Wright — Chicago Tribute
30 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas (Bronzeville) — State Street
31 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas (Bronzeville) — Sunset Cafe — Chicago Landmark —
32 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas (Bronzeville) — Supreme Life Building — Chicago Landmark —
33 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas (Bronzeville) — The Boulevard System
34 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas (Bronzeville) — The Ida B. Wells Homes
35 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas (Bronzeville) — Unity Hall — Chicago Landmark
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36 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas (Bronzeville) — Victory, World War I Black Soldiers’ Memorial
37 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas (Bronzeville) — Welcome to Bronzeville
38 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Dunning — Civil War Veterans
39 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Dunning — Cook County Cemetery at Dunning — 1854
40 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Dunning — Cook County Poorhouse
41 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Dunning — Henry Horner — 1878 – 1940
42 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Dunning — Orphaned and Abandoned Infants and Children
43 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Dunning — Read-Dunning Cemetery No. 3
44 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Dunning — The Cook County Insane Asylum
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45 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Dunning — The Sick and Infirm at Dunning
46 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Dunning — Unidentified Victims of the 1871 Chicago Fire
47 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Dunning — Unknown and Itinerant Poor of Cook County
48 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Dunning — Veterans Memorial
49 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, East Garfield Park — Behold Thy Mother
50 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, East Garfield Park — Garfield Park
51 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, East Garfield Park — Garfield Park
52 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, East Garfield Park — The Boulevard System
53 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, East Hyde Park — Harold Washington — Chicago Tribute —
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54 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, East Side — East Side Veterans Memorial
55 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, East Side — Illinois-Indiana Boundary Marker
56 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Edison Park — Edison Park World War I Memorial
57 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Forest Glen — Mary Berkemeier Quinn Park-of-Trees — Established and maintained in perpetuity
58 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Forest Glen — Old Edgebrook — Chicago Landmark District
59 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Forest Glen — Old Treaty Elm
60 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Forest Glen — Sauganash Veterans Memorial
61 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Forest Glen — Trinity Slovak Lutheran Church
62 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Garfield Park — 132nd Infantry Monument — 2nd Ill.
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63 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Garfield Park — Finley Peter Dunne — Chicago Tribute —
64 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Garfield Park — Garfield Park
65 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Garfield Park — Garfield Park
66 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Garfield Park — Garfield Park
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 Fieldhouse
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72 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Garfield Park — Garfield Park Natural Area
73 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Garfield Park — Garfield Park Natural Area
74 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Garfield Park — Garfield Park Natural Area
75 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Garfield Park — George Halas — Chicago Tribute —
76 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Garfield Park — Norman Cornwall Memorial
77 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Garfield Park — The Boulevard System
78 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Gold Coast — "Barmaids Ordinance"
79 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Gold Coast — Bertha Honore Palmer and Potter Palmer
80 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Gold Coast — Bryan Lathrop House — Chicago Landmark
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81 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Gold Coast — Catholic Cemetery — Hidden Truths
82 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Gold Coast — Churchill Corner
83 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Gold Coast — Fisher Studio Houses — Andrew Rebori, architect; 1936 — Chicago Landmark —
84 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Gold Coast — Irna Phillips — Chicago Tribute —
85 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Gold Coast — James Charnley House
86 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Gold Coast — John Wellborn Root — Chicago Tribute —
87 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Gold Coast — Louise DeKoven Bowen — Chicago Tribute —
88 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Gold Coast — Patterson-McCormick Mansion
89 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Gold Coast — Robert McCormick — Chicago Tribute —
90 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Gold Coast — St. Chrysostom's Church
91 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Gold Coast — The Three Arts Club — Holabird and Roche, architects; 1914 — Chicago Landmark —
92 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Gold Coast — Victorian Brownstone Residences
93 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Gold Coast — Walgreens — 1200 North Dearborn Street
94 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Gold Coast — Wooden Alley
95 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Grand Boulevard (Bronzeville) — Bessie Coleman — Chicago Tribute
96 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Grand Boulevard (Bronzeville) — Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church — Chicago Landmark —
97 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Grand Boulevard (Bronzeville) — Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong — Chicago Tribute
98 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Grand Boulevard (Bronzeville) — Melissia Ann Elam Home — Chicago Landmark
99 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Grand Boulevard (Bronzeville) — Nat "King" Cole — Chicago Tribute
100 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Grand Boulevard (Bronzeville) — Oscar DePriest — Chicago Tribute

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