Current NHLs in Illinois
The following is a complete list of all 84 NHLs in Illinois. They are listed here under their National Historic Landmark program names.
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| Landmark name | Image | Date declared | Locality | County | Description | |
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| Robert S. Abbott House | 01976-12-08December 8, 1976 | Chicago |
Cook | A home of Robert S. Abbott, founder of the Chicago Defender newspaper. | ||
| Adler Planetarium | 01987-02-27February 27, 1987 | Chicago |
Cook | First and oldest planetarium in the western hemisphere. | ||
| Auditorium Building | 01975-05-15May 15, 1975 | Chicago |
Cook | Building designed by Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan. | ||
| Bishop Hill Colony | 01970-04-27April 27, 1970 | Bishop Hill |
Henry | Historic district of Swedish dissident commune founded in 1846. | ||
| Cahokia Mounds | 01964-07-19July 19, 1964 | Collinsville |
St. Clair | Largest archaeological site related to Mississippian culture. | ||
| Carson, Pirie, Scott, and Company Store | 01975-05-15May 15, 1975 | Chicago |
Cook | Architect Louis Sullivan-designed building. | ||
| James Charnley House | 01998-08-05August 5, 1998 | Chicago |
Cook | Louis Sullivan AND Frank Lloyd Wright got in on this one's design. | ||
| Chicago Board of Trade Building | 01978-06-02June 2, 1978 | Chicago |
Cook | Skyscraper designed by Holabird & Root, housed the world's largest trading floor when built in 1930. | ||
| Church of the Holy Family | 01970-04-15April 15, 1970 | Cahokia |
St. Clair | A church dating from 1799. | ||
| Columbus Park | 02003-07-31July 31, 2003 | Chicago |
Cook | Part of the Chicago Park District. | ||
| Arthur H. Compton House | 01976-05-11May 11, 1976 | Chicago |
Cook | Home of Nobel-prize-winning physicist who proved light has both wave and particle aspects, the Compton Effect. | ||
| Avery Coonley House | 01970-12-30December 30, 1970 | Riverside |
Cook | Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home, in Riverside Historic District | ||
| Crow Island School | 01990-12-14December 14, 1990 | Winnetka |
Cook | An elementary school designed by Larry Perkins and Eliel Saarinen. Model for the now-widespread Winnetka Plan school design. | ||
| Susan Lawrence Dana House | 01976-01-07January 7, 1976 | Springfield |
Sangamon | A Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house. | ||
| David Davis House | 01975-05-15May 15, 1975 | Bloomington |
McLean | Home of David Davis (Supreme Court justice). | ||
| Charles G. Dawes House | 01976-12-08December 8, 1976 | Evanston |
Cook | Home of Charles Gates Dawes, architect of peace plans. | ||
| John Deere Home and Shop | 01964-07-19July 19, 1964 | Grand Detour |
Ogle | Site of the invention of the first steel plow. | ||
| Oscar Stanton DePriest House | 01975-05-15May 15, 1975 | Chicago |
Cook | Home of the first post-Reconstruction African-American US congressman. | ||
| Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable Homesite | 01976-05-11May 11, 1976 | Chicago |
Cook | Home of a Chicago's first settler. | ||
| Eads Bridge | 01964-01-29January 29, 1964 | East St. Louis |
St. Clair | A combined road and railway bridge which was, when completed in 1874, the longest arch bridge in the world. Extends into St. Louis, Missouri. | ||
| Farm Creek Section | 01997-12-09December 9, 1997 | Vicinity of East Peoria |
Tazewell | Site of exposed geological strata. | ||
| Farnsworth House | 02006-02-17February 17, 2006 | Plano |
Kendall | A one-room home designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. | ||
| John Farson House | 01996-06-19June 19, 1996 | Oak Park |
Cook | A pleasant home. | ||
| Fort De Chartres | 01960-10-09October 9, 1960 | Prairie du Rocher |
Randolph | French fort built in 1720. Its powder magazine is believed to be oldest standing building in Illinois. | ||
| Fort Sheridan Historic District | 01984-04-20April 20, 1984 | Fort Sheridan |
Lake | An area originally established as a United States Army Post. | ||
| John J. Glessner House | 01976-01-07January 7, 1976 | Chicago |
Cook | A 19th century house designed by Henry Hobson Richardson. | ||
| Ulysses S. Grant Home | 01960-12-19December 19, 1960 | Galena |
Jo Daviess | A house given to the 18th President of the United States following the Civil War. | ||
| Grosse Point Lighthouse | 01999-01-20January 20, 1999 | Evanston |
Cook | A lighthouse on the shores of Lake Michigan, built in 1873 the wake of several shipping disasters. | ||
| Haymarket Martyrs' Monument | 01997-02-18February 18, 1997 | Forest Park |
Cook | A monument in Waldheim Cemetery | ||
| Hegeler-Carus Mansion | 02007-03-29March 29, 2007 | LaSalle |
La Salle | Designed by Chicago architect William W. Boyington for a partner in a nearby zinc company. | ||
| Isidore H. Heller House | 02004-08-18August 18, 2004 | Chicago |
Cook | A Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house. | ||
| Arthur Heurtley House | 02000-02-16February 16, 2000 | Oak Park |
Cook | Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house, his first fully in Prairie School style. | ||
| Hull House | 01965-06-23June 23, 1965 | Chicago |
Cook | One of the first settlement houses in the U.S. | ||
| Illinois and Michigan Canal Locks And Towpath | 01964-01-29January 29, 1964 | Joliet |
Will | A canal that helped establish transportation from the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. | ||
| Nicholas Jarrot Mansion | 02001-08-07August 7, 2001 | Cahokia |
St. Clair | A mansion which is a State Historic Site, too. | ||
| Kennicott Grove | 01976-01-07January 7, 1976 | Glenview |
Cook | The home of Robert Kennicott, an American naturalist. | ||
| Kincaid Site | 01964-07-19July 19, 1964 | Brookport |
Massac and Pope County | Archaeological site. | ||
| Leiter II Building | 01976-01-07January 7, 1976 | Chicago |
Cook | A building. | ||
| Frank R. Lillie House | 01976-05-11May 11, 1976 | Chicago |
Cook | Former home of embryologist Frank R. Lillie. | ||
| Abraham Lincoln Home | 01960-12-19December 19, 1960 | Springfield |
Sangamon | The only house ever owned by America's 16th president. | ||
| Lincoln Park Lily Pool | 02006-02-17February 17, 2006 | Chicago |
Cook | An example of Prairie School landscape architecture designed by Alfred Caldwell. | ||
| Lincoln Tomb | 01960-12-19December 19, 1960 | Springfield |
Sangamon | The tomb of America's 16th president, Abraham Lincoln. | ||
| Vachel Lindsay House | 01971-11-11November 11, 1971 | Springfield |
Sangamon | A poet's house. | ||
| Owen Lovejoy House | 01997-02-18February 18, 1997 | Princeton |
Bureau | Home of abolitionist who was killed defending his printing presses. | ||
| Marquette Building | 01976-01-07January 7, 1976 | Chicago |
Cook | Another building. | ||
| Marshall Field Company Store | 01978-06-02June 2, 1978 | Chicago |
Cook | Long the flagship store of the Marshall Field Company. | ||
| Mazon Creek Fossil Beds | image pending | 01997-09-25September 25, 1997 | Morris |
Grundy | Some fossil beds. | |
| Pierre Menard House | 01970-04-15April 15, 1970 | Ellis Grove |
Randolph | A house. | ||
| Robert A. Millikan House | 01976-05-11May 11, 1976 | Chicago |
Cook | Home of Robert A. Millikan, a physicist. | ||
| Modoc Rock Shelter | 01961-01-20January 20, 1961 | Modoc |
Randolph | An archaeological site, a rock overhang. | ||
| Montgomery Ward Company Complex | 01978-06-02June 2, 1978 | Chicago |
Cook | The former warehouse and offices of the national headquarters of one of the nation's first mail order companies, Montgomery Ward. | ||
| Morrow Plots, University of Illinois | 01968-05-23May 23, 1968 | Urbana |
Champaign | An experimental corn field. | ||
| Nauvoo Historic District | 01961-01-20January 20, 1961 | Nauvoo |
Hancock | A historic district based around a 19th century Mormon settlement. | ||
| New Philadelphia Townsite | 02009-01-16January 16, 2009 | near Barry |
Pike | Site of first U.S. settlement founded by an African-American. | ||
| Old Kaskaskia Village | 01964-07-19July 19, 1964 | Ottawa |
La Salle | The best-documented Native American village in the Illinois River Valley. | ||
| Old Main, Knox College | 01961-07-04July 4, 1961 | Galesburg |
Knox | Best-preserved site of one of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. | ||
| Old State Capitol (Illinois) | 01961-07-04July 4, 1961 | Springfield |
Sangamon | An ex-capitol building. | ||
| Old Stone Gate, Chicago Union Stockyards | 01981-05-29May 29, 1981 | Chicago |
Cook | Entrance to the famous Union Stock Yards; designed by John Wellboorn Root. | ||
| Orchestra Hall | 01994-04-19April 19, 1994 | Chicago |
Cook | A symphony hall. | ||
| Principia College Historic District | image pending | 01993-04-19April 19, 1993 | Elsah |
Jersey | Another historic district. | |
| Pullman Historic District | 01970-12-30December 30, 1970 | Chicago |
Cook | Another historic district of the Pullman Company including the Hotel Florence. | ||
| Reliance Building | 01976-01-07January 7, 1976 | Chicago |
Cook | A building. | ||
| Riverside Historic District | 01970-08-29August 29, 1970 | Riverside |
Cook | Planned community designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. | ||
| Frederick C. Robie House | 01963-11-27November 27, 1963 | Chicago |
Cook | A Prairie style home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1908. | ||
| Rock Island Arsenal | 01988-06-07June 7, 1988 | Rock Island |
Rock Island | An arsenal. | ||
| Rookery Building | 01975-05-15May 15, 1975 | Chicago |
Cook | An office building designed by Daniel Burnham and John Wellborn Root. | ||
| Room 405, George Herbert Jones Laboratory | 01967-05-28May 28, 1967 | Chicago |
Cook | The laboratory that first isolated plutonium and determined its atomic mass. | ||
| Sears, Roebuck, And Company | 01978-06-02June 2, 1978 | Chicago |
Cook | A complex. | ||
| Shedd Aquarium | 01987-02-27February 27, 1987 | Chicago |
Cook | Formerly the largest indoor aquarium in the world. | ||
| Site of the First Self-Sustaining Nuclear Reaction | 01965-02-18February 18, 1965 | Chicago |
Cook | Site of the First Self-Sustaining Nuclear Reaction. | ||
| South Dearborn Street-Printing House Row Historic District | 01976-01-07January 7, 1976 | Chicago |
Cook | A historic district. | ||
| S.R. Crown Hall | 02001-08-07August 7, 2001 | Chicago |
Cook | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe-designed architecture school building at Illinois Institute of Technology | ||
| Starved Rock | 01960-10-09October 9, 1960 | Ottawa |
La Salle | A Sandstone butte overlooking the Illinois River, site of a massacre | ||
| Lorado Taft Midway Studios | 01965-12-21December 21, 1965 | Chicago |
Cook | Studios of sculptor Lorado Taft. | ||
| F. F. Tomek House | 01999-01-20January 20, 1999 | Riverside |
Cook | Another house in Riverside Historic District | ||
| Lyman Trumbull House | image pending | 01975-05-15May 15, 1975 | Alton |
Madison | A house. | |
| German submarine U-505 | 01989-06-29June 29, 1989 | Chicago |
Cook | German U-Boat at Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago | ||
| Unity Temple | 01970-12-30December 30, 1970 | Oak Park |
Cook | A temple designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. | ||
| University Of Illinois Observatory | 01989-12-20December 20, 1989 | Urbana |
Champaign | An observatory. | ||
| The Wayside | 01966-11-13November 13, 1966 | Winnetka |
Cook | Home of Henry Demarest Lloyd. | ||
| Ida B. Wells-Barnett House | 01974-05-30May 30, 1974 | Chicago |
Cook | Former home of civil rights advocate Ida B. Wells. | ||
| Frances Willard House | 01965-06-23June 23, 1965 | Evanston |
Cook | Former home of temperance reformer Frances Willard, and longtime headquarters of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. | ||
| Daniel Hale Williams House | image pending | 01975-05-15May 15, 1975 | Chicago |
Cook | The former home of Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, one of the first major African American surgeons.. | |
| Frank Lloyd Wright Home And Studio | 01976-01-07January 7, 1976 | Oak Park |
Cook | Former home and studio of Frank Lloyd Wright. |
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