List of National Historic Landmarks in Illinois

CHICAGO

CHICAGO NHLS:
Robert Abbott House
Adler Planetarium
Auditorium Building
Carson, Pirie, Scott Building
James Charnley House
Chicago Board of Trade Building
Columbus Park
Arthur Compton House
Oscar De Priest House
Du Sable Homesite
John J. Glessner House
Haymarket Martyrs' Monument
Isidore Heller House
Hull House
Kennicott Grove
Leiter II Building
Frank Lillie House
Lincoln Park Lily Pool
Marquette Building
Marshall Field Company Store
Robert Millikan House
Montgomery Ward Complex
Old Stone Gate
Orchestra Hall

CHICAGO CONT:

Pullman Historic District
Reliance Building
Frederick Robie House
Rookery Building
Room 405 G. H Jones Lab
Sears & Roebuck Complex
Shedd Aquarium
First Self-Sustaining Nuclear Site
South Dearborn Printing House Row
S. R. Crown Hall
Lorado Taft Midway Studios
Unterseeboot 505
Ida B. Wells-Barnett House
James Charnley House
Daniel Hale Williams House

Bishop Hill Colony

Cahokia Mounds
Church of Holy Family
Eads Bridge
Nicholas Jarrot Mansion

Crow Island School
  The Wayside

David Davis House

John Deere House

Farm Creek Section

Farnsworth House

Fort de Chartres

Fort Sheridan

Ulysses S. Grant Home

Hegler-Carus Mansion

I &. M Canal

Kincaid Mounds 

Abraham Lincoln Home
Lincoln Tomb
Susan Lawrence Dana House
Vachel Lindsay House
Old State Capitol

Owen Lovejoy House

Mazon Creek Fossil Beds

Pierre Menard House

Modoc Rock Shelter

Morrow Plots
UIUC Observatory

Nauvoo Historic District

New Philadelphia Town Site

Old Kaskaskia Village

Old Main Knox College

Lyman Trumbull House

Principia College Historic District

Rock Island Arsenal

Starved Rock

Riverside Historic District
Avery Coonley House
F.F. Tomek House

Gross Point Lighthouse
Charles Dawes House
Frances Willard House

Frank Lloyd Wright Home
John Farson House
Arthur Heurtly House
Unity Temple

Illinois National Historic Landmarks (clickable map)

There are 85 National Historic Landmarks in Illinois, including Eads Bridge which spans into Missouri and which the National Park Service credits to Missouri's National Historic Landmark list. Also included are four sites that were once National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: two that have been de-designated and two that have been moved to other states. All National Historic Landmarks are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Current NHLs in Illinois

The following is a complete list of Illinois' National Historic Landmarks. They are listed here under their National Historic Landmark program names.

	Landmark name	Image	Date declared	Locality	County	Description
1	Robert S. Abbott House		01976-12-08December 8, 1976	Chicago 41.808068°N 87.616135°W / 41.808068; -87.616135 (Abbott, Robert S., House)	Cook	A home of Robert S. Abbott, founder of the Chicago Defender newspaper.
2	Adler Planetarium		01987-02-27February 27, 1987	Chicago 41.866454°N 87.607416°W / 41.866454; -87.607416 (Adler Planetarium)	Cook	First and oldest planetarium in the western hemisphere.
3	Auditorium Building		01975-05-15May 15, 1975	Chicago 41.875756°N 87.624370°W / 41.875756; -87.624370 (Auditorium Building, Roosevelt University)	Cook	Building designed by Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan.
4	Bishop Hill Colony		01970-04-27April 27, 1970	Bishop Hill 41.2003°N 90.1189°W / 41.2003; -90.1189 (Bishop Hill Colony)	Henry	Historic district of Swedish dissident commune founded in 1846.
5	Cahokia Mounds		01964-07-19July 19, 1964	Collinsville 38.653889°N 90.064444°W / 38.653889; -90.064444 (Cahokia Mounds)	St. Clair	Largest archaeological site related to Mississippian culture.
6	Carson, Pirie, Scott, and Company Store		01975-05-15May 15, 1975	Chicago 41.881894°N 87.627780°W / 41.881894; -87.627780 (Carson, Pirie, Scott And Company)	Cook	Architect Louis Sullivan-designed building.
7	James Charnley House		01998-08-05August 5, 1998	Chicago 41.907264°N 87.627597°W / 41.907264; -87.627597 (James Charnley House)	Cook	Louis Sullivan AND Frank Lloyd Wright got in on this one's design.
8	Chicago Board of Trade Building		01978-06-02June 2, 1978	Chicago 41.878123°N 87.632131°W / 41.878123; -87.632131 (Chicago Board of Trade Building)	Cook	Skyscraper designed by Holabird & Root, housed the world's largest trading floor when built in 1930.
9	Church of the Holy Family		01970-04-15April 15, 1970	Cahokia 38.57035°N 90.18844°W / 38.57035; -90.18844 (Church of the Holy Family)	St. Clair	A church dating from 1799.
10	Columbus Park		02003-07-31July 31, 2003	Chicago 41.873889°N 87.769722°W / 41.873889; -87.769722 (Columbus Park)	Cook	Part of the Chicago Park District.
11	Arthur H. Compton House		01976-05-11May 11, 1976	Chicago 41.792435°N 87.596263°W / 41.792435; -87.596263 (Compton, Arthur H., House)	Cook	Home of Nobel-prize-winning physicist who proved light has both wave and particle aspects, the Compton Effect.
12	Avery Coonley House		01970-12-30December 30, 1970	Riverside 41.818629°N 87.828618°W / 41.818629; -87.828618 (Coonley, Avery, House)	Cook	Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home, in Riverside Historic District
13	Crow Island School		01990-12-14December 14, 1990	Winnetka 42.101111°N 87.746113°W / 42.101111; -87.746113 (Crow Island School)	Cook	An elementary school designed by Larry Perkins and Eliel Saarinen. Model for the now-widespread Winnetka Plan school design.
14	Susan Lawrence Dana House		01976-01-07January 7, 1976	Springfield 39.793930°N 89.652075°W / 39.793930; -89.652075 (Dana, Susan Lawrence, House)	Sangamon	A Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house.
15	David Davis House		01975-05-15May 15, 1975	Bloomington 40.481624°N 88.980419°W / 40.481624; -88.980419 (David Davis House Lawn)	McLean	Home of David Davis (Supreme Court justice).
16	Charles G. Dawes House		01976-12-08December 8, 1976	Evanston 42.042526°N 87.673084°W / 42.042526; -87.673084 (Dawes, Charles Gates, House)	Cook	Home of Charles Gates Dawes, architect of peace plans.
17	John Deere Home and Shop		01964-07-19July 19, 1964	Grand Detour 41.896618°N 89.414648°W / 41.896618; -89.414648 (John Deere Home And Shop)	Ogle	Site of the invention of the first steel plow.
18	Oscar Stanton DePriest House		01975-05-15May 15, 1975	Chicago 41.809769°N 87.617957°W / 41.809769; -87.617957 (De Priest, Oscar Stanton, House)	Cook	Home of the first post-Reconstruction African-American US congressman.
19	Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable Homesite		01976-05-11May 11, 1976	Chicago 41.887739°N 87.623409°W / 41.887739; -87.623409 (Du Sable, Jean Baptiste Point, Homesite)	Cook	Home of a Chicago's first settler.
20	Eads Bridge		01964-01-29January 29, 1964	East St. Louis 38.627417°N 90.185585°W / 38.627417; -90.185585 (Eads Bridge)	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.
21	Farm Creek Section		01997-12-09December 9, 1997	Vicinity of East Peoria 40.6755°N 89.4898°W / 40.6755; -89.4898 (Farm Creek Section)	Tazewell	Site of exposed geological strata.
22	Farnsworth House		02006-02-17February 17, 2006	Plano 41.634989°N 88.535722°W / 41.634989; -88.535722 (Farnsworth House)	Kendall	A one-room home designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
23	John Farson House		01996-06-19June 19, 1996	Oak Park 41.885278°N 87.800556°W / 41.885278; -87.800556 (John Farson House)	Cook	A pleasant home.
24	Fort De Chartres		01960-10-09October 9, 1960	Prairie du Rocher 38.084652°N 90.157968°W / 38.084652; -90.157968 (Fort de Chartres)	Randolph	French fort built in 1720. Its powder magazine is believed to be oldest standing building in Illinois.
25	Fort Sheridan Historic District		01984-04-20April 20, 1984	Fort Sheridan 42.2125°N 87.810556°W / 42.2125; -87.810556 (Fort Sheridan Historic District)	Lake	An area originally established as a United States Army Post.
26	John J. Glessner House		01976-01-07January 7, 1976	Chicago 41.857886°N 87.620784°W / 41.857886; -87.620784 (Glessner, John J., House)	Cook	A 19th century house designed by Henry Hobson Richardson.
27	Ulysses S. Grant Home		01960-12-19December 19, 1960	Galena 42.410104°N 90.422924°W / 42.410104; -90.422924 (Grant, Ulysses S., House)	Jo Daviess	A house given to the 18th President of the United States following the Civil War.
28	Grosse Point Lighthouse		01999-01-20January 20, 1999	Evanston 42.063889°N 87.676111°W / 42.063889; -87.676111 (Grosse Point Lighthouse)	Cook	A lighthouse on the shores of Lake Michigan, built in 1873 the wake of several shipping disasters.
29	Haymarket Martyrs' Monument		01997-02-18February 18, 1997	Forest Park 41.840844°N 87.819281°W / 41.840844; -87.819281 (Haymarket Martyrs' Monument)	Cook	A monument in Waldheim Cemetery
30	Hegeler-Carus Mansion		02007-03-29March 29, 2007	LaSalle 41.335836°N 89.087053°W / 41.335836; -89.087053 (Hegeler-Carus Mansion)	La Salle	Designed by Chicago architect William W. Boyington for a partner in a nearby zinc company.
31	Isidore H. Heller House		02004-08-18August 18, 2004	Chicago 41.801333°N 87.597089°W / 41.801333; -87.597089 (Isidore H. Heller House)	Cook	A Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house.
32	Arthur Heurtley House		02000-02-16February 16, 2000	Oak Park 41.892722°N 87.799822°W / 41.892722; -87.799822 (Arthur Heurtley House)	Cook	Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house, his first fully in Prairie School style.
33	Hull House		01965-06-23June 23, 1965	Chicago 41.871399°N 87.647133°W / 41.871399; -87.647133 (Hull House)	Cook	One of the first settlement houses in the U.S.
34	Illinois and Michigan Canal Locks And Towpath		01964-01-29January 29, 1964	Joliet 41.569722°N 88.069722°W / 41.569722; -88.069722 (Illinois and Michigan Canal Locks And Towpath)	Will	A canal that helped establish transportation from the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico.
35	Nicholas Jarrot Mansion		02001-08-07August 7, 2001	Cahokia 38.57011°N 90.18711°W / 38.57011; -90.18711 (Nicholas Jarrot Mansion)	St. Clair	A mansion which is a State Historic Site, too.
36	Kennicott Grove		01976-01-07January 7, 1976	Glenview 42.086865°N 87.870023°W / 42.086865; -87.870023 (Kennicott Grove)	Cook	The home of Robert Kennicott, an American naturalist.
37	Kincaid Site		01964-07-19July 19, 1964	Brookport 37.080575°N 88.491783°W / 37.080575; -88.491783 (Kincaid Site)	Massac and Pope County	Archaeological site.
38	Leiter II Building		01976-01-07January 7, 1976	Chicago 41.874477°N 87.627377°W / 41.874477; -87.627377 (Leiter Ii Building)	Cook	A building.
39	Frank R. Lillie House		01976-05-11May 11, 1976	Chicago 41.789545°N 87.593114°W / 41.789545; -87.593114 (Lillie, Frank R., House)	Cook	Former home of embryologist Frank R. Lillie.
40	Abraham Lincoln Home		01960-12-19December 19, 1960	Springfield 39.795352°N 89.644724°W / 39.795352; -89.644724 (Lincoln Home National Historic Site)	Sangamon	The only house ever owned by America's 16th president.
41	Lincoln Park Lily Pool		02006-02-17February 17, 2006	Chicago 41.9253°N 87.6341°W / 41.9253; -87.6341 (Lincoln Park Lily Pool)	Cook	An example of Prairie School landscape architecture designed by Alfred Caldwell.
42	Lincoln Tomb		01960-12-19December 19, 1960	Springfield 39.823333°N 89.655833°W / 39.823333; -89.655833 (Lincoln Tomb)	Sangamon	The tomb of America's 16th president, Abraham Lincoln.
43	Vachel Lindsay House		01971-11-11November 11, 1971	Springfield 39.795926°N 89.649441°W / 39.795926; -89.649441 (Lindsay, Vachel, House)	Sangamon	A poet's house.
44	Owen Lovejoy House		01997-02-18February 18, 1997	Princeton 41.373056°N 89.450833°W / 41.373056; -89.450833 (Owen Lovejoy House)	Bureau	Home of a prominent abolitionist.
45	Marquette Building		01976-01-07January 7, 1976	Chicago 41.880193°N 87.629371°W / 41.880193; -87.629371 (Marquette Building)	Cook	Another building.
46	Marshall Field Company Store		01978-06-02June 2, 1978	Chicago 41.883532°N 87.627850°W / 41.883532; -87.627850 (Marshall Field Company Store)	Cook	Long the flagship store of the Marshall Field Company.
47	Mazon Creek Fossil Beds	image pending	01997-09-25September 25, 1997	Morris 41.321°N 88.346°W / 41.321; -88.346 (Mazon Creek Fossil Beds)	Grundy	Some fossil beds.
48	Pierre Menard House		01970-04-15April 15, 1970	Ellis Grove 37.9647°N 89.9099°W / 37.9647; -89.9099 (Pierre Menard House)	Randolph	A house.
49	Robert A. Millikan House		01976-05-11May 11, 1976	Chicago 41.792918°N 87.596283°W / 41.792918; -87.596283 (Millikan, Robert A., House)	Cook	Home of Robert A. Millikan, a physicist.
50	Modoc Rock Shelter		01961-01-20January 20, 1961	Modoc 38.062778°N 90.063611°W / 38.062778; -90.063611 (Modoc Rock Shelter)	Randolph	An archaeological site, a rock overhang.
51	Montgomery Ward Company Complex		01978-06-02June 2, 1978	Chicago 41.896450°N 87.643396°W / 41.896450; -87.643396 (Montgomery Ward Company Complex)	Cook	The former warehouse and offices of the national headquarters of one of the nation's first mail order companies, Montgomery Ward.
52	Morrow Plots, University of Illinois		01968-05-23May 23, 1968	Urbana 40.102556°N 88.225817°W / 40.102556; -88.225817 (Morrow Plots, University of Illinois)	Champaign	An experimental corn field.
53	Nauvoo Historic District		01961-01-20January 20, 1961	Nauvoo 40.548°N 91.382°W / 40.548; -91.382 (Nauvoo Historic District)	Hancock	A historic district based around a 19th century Mormon settlement.
54	New Philadelphia Townsite		02009-01-16January 16, 2009	near Barry 39.695833°N 90.959722°W / 39.695833; -90.959722 (New Philadelphia Townsite)	Pike	Site of first U.S. settlement founded by an African-American.
55	Old Kaskaskia Village		01964-07-19July 19, 1964	Ottawa	La Salle	The best-documented Native American village in the Illinois River Valley.
56	Old Main, Knox College		01961-07-04July 4, 1961	Galesburg 40.941423°N 90.370568°W / 40.941423; -90.370568 (Old Main, Knox College)	Knox	Best-preserved site of one of the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
57	Old State Capitol (Illinois)		01961-07-04July 4, 1961	Springfield 39.799238°N 89.648143°W / 39.799238; -89.648143 (Old State Capitol)	Sangamon	An ex-capitol building.
58	Old Stone Gate, Chicago Union Stockyards		01981-05-29May 29, 1981	Chicago 41.816627°N 87.648364°W / 41.816627; -87.648364 (Old Stone Gate of Chicago Union Stockyards)	Cook	Entrance to the famous Union Stock Yards; designed by John Wellboorn Root.
59	Orchestra Hall		01994-04-19April 19, 1994	Chicago 41.879200°N 87.624429°W / 41.879200; -87.624429 (Orchestra Hall)	Cook	A symphony hall.
60	Principia College Historic District	image pending	01993-04-19April 19, 1993	Elsah 38.94890°N 90.34753°W / 38.94890; -90.34753 (Principia College Historic District)	Jersey	Another historic district.
61	Pullman Historic District		01970-12-30December 30, 1970	Chicago 41.697222°N 87.609444°W / 41.697222; -87.609444 (Pullman Historic District)	Cook	Another historic district of the Pullman Company including the Hotel Florence.
62	Reliance Building		01976-01-07January 7, 1976	Chicago 41.882382°N 87.627844°W / 41.882382; -87.627844 (Reliance Building)	Cook	A building.
63	Riverside Historic District		01970-08-29August 29, 1970	Riverside 41.8318°N 87.8135°W / 41.8318; -87.8135 (Riverside Historic District)	Cook	Planned community designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux.
64	Frederick C. Robie House		01963-11-27November 27, 1963	Chicago 41.790332°N 87.596214°W / 41.790332; -87.596214 (Robie, Frederick C., House)	Cook	A Prairie style home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1908.
65	Rock Island Arsenal		01988-06-07June 7, 1988	Rock Island 41.516944°N 90.541944°W / 41.516944; -90.541944 (Rock Island Arsenal)	Rock Island	An arsenal.
66	Rookery Building		01975-05-15May 15, 1975	Chicago 41.879284°N 87.632273°W / 41.879284; -87.632273 (Rookery Building)	Cook	An office building designed by Daniel Burnham and John Wellborn Root.
67	Room 405, George Herbert Jones Laboratory		01967-05-28May 28, 1967	Chicago 41.788422°N 87.601025°W / 41.788422; -87.601025 (Room 405, George Herbert Jones Laboratory, The University of Chicago)	Cook	The laboratory that first isolated plutonium and determined its atomic mass.
68	Sears, Roebuck, And Company		01978-06-02June 2, 1978	Chicago 41.868541°N 87.710573°W / 41.868541; -87.710573 (Sears, Roebuck And Company Complex)	Cook	A complex.
69	Second Presbyterian Church		02013-03-11March 11, 2013	Chicago 41.8558°N 87.6244°W / 41.8558; -87.6244 (Second Presbyterian Church)	Cook	This church is a masterpiece of the Arts and Crafts movement.
70	Shedd Aquarium		01987-02-27February 27, 1987	Chicago 41.867182°N 87.619236°W / 41.867182; -87.619236 (Shedd, John G., Aquarium)	Cook	Formerly the largest indoor aquarium in the world.
71	Site of the First Self-Sustaining Nuclear Reaction		01965-02-18February 18, 1965	Chicago 41.790494°N 87.601043°W / 41.790494; -87.601043 (Site of First Self-sustaining Nuclear Reaction)	Cook	Site of the First Self-Sustaining Nuclear Reaction.
72	South Dearborn Street-Printing House Row Historic District		01976-01-07January 7, 1976	Chicago 41.876545°N 87.62812°W / 41.876545; -87.62812 (South Dearborn Street--printing House Row Historic District)	Cook	A historic district.
73	S.R. Crown Hall		02001-08-07August 7, 2001	Chicago 41.833611°N 87.627222°W / 41.833611; -87.627222 (S.R. Crown Hall)	Cook	Ludwig Mies van der Rohe-designed architecture school building at Illinois Institute of Technology
74	Starved Rock		01960-10-09October 9, 1960	Ottawa 41.321389°N 88.990278°W / 41.321389; -88.990278 (Starved Rock)	La Salle	A Sandstone butte overlooking the Illinois River, site of a massacre
75	Lorado Taft Midway Studios		01965-12-21December 21, 1965	Chicago 41.785402°N 87.602750°W / 41.785402; -87.602750 (Lorado Taft Midway Studios)	Cook	Studios of sculptor Lorado Taft.
76	F. F. Tomek House		01999-01-20January 20, 1999	Riverside 41.832153°N 87.8171°W / 41.832153; -87.8171 (F. F. Tomek House)	Cook	Another house in Riverside Historic District
77	Lyman Trumbull House	image pending	01975-05-15May 15, 1975	Alton 38.897389°N 90.176415°W / 38.897389; -90.176415 (Trumbull, Lyman, House)	Madison	A house.
78	German submarine U-505		01989-06-29June 29, 1989	Chicago 41.864543°N 87.615713°W / 41.864543; -87.615713 (U-505 (ix C U-boat))	Cook	German U-Boat at Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
79	Unity Temple		01970-12-30December 30, 1970	Oak Park 41.888613°N 87.796798°W / 41.888613; -87.796798 (Unity Temple)	Cook	A temple designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
80	University Of Illinois Observatory		01989-12-20December 20, 1989	Urbana 40.104081°N 88.225712°W / 40.104081; -88.225712 (University of Illinois Observatory)	Champaign	An observatory.
81	The Wayside		01966-11-13November 13, 1966	Winnetka 42.114222°N 87.732475°W / 42.114222; -87.732475 (The Wayside (Henry Demarest Lloyd House))	Cook	Home of Henry Demarest Lloyd.
82	Ida B. Wells-Barnett House		01974-05-30May 30, 1974	Chicago 41.827794°N 87.617504°W / 41.827794; -87.617504 (Wells-barnett, Ida B., House)	Cook	Former home of civil rights advocate Ida B. Wells.
83	Frances Willard House		01965-06-23June 23, 1965	Evanston 42.048287°N 87.678481°W / 42.048287; -87.678481 (Willard, Frances, House)	Cook	Former home of temperance reformer Frances Willard, and longtime headquarters of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
84	Daniel Hale Williams House	image pending	01975-05-15May 15, 1975	Chicago 41.818425°N 87.615284°W / 41.818425; -87.615284 (Williams, Dr. Daniel Hale, House)	Cook	The former home of Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, one of the first major African American surgeons.
85	Frank Lloyd Wright Home And Studio		01976-01-07January 7, 1976	Oak Park 41.893387°N 87.800182°W / 41.893387; -87.800182 (Wright, Frank Lloyd, House And Studio)	Cook	Former home and studio of Frank Lloyd Wright.

Former NHLs in Illinois

	Landmark name	Image	Date declared	Locality	County	Comment
1	Soldier Field (Grant Park Stadium)		1987	Chicago	Cook	Was declared an NHL on 2/27/1987. The designation was withdrawn on 2/17/2006.
2	Milwaukee Clipper (passenger steamship)		1989	Muskegon	Muskegon	Museum ship at Navy Pier when declared NHL. Moved in 1990 to Hammond, Indiana and later moved to Muskegon, Michigan.
3	PRESIDENT (Steamboat)		1989	St. Elmo (formerly)	Fayette (formerly)	A steamboat, out of service, broken down into pieces, and for sale.
4	USS Silversides (SS-236)		1972	Chicago (formerly)	Cook (formerly)	A submarine, now a museum ship. Moved to Muskegon, Michigan. Photo in article shows it there in January 2008.

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Illinois
• List of National Historic Landmarks by state

External links

• "National Historic Landmarks Survey: List of National Historic Landmarks by State--Illinois (84)" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2007-11-12.  Note this lists 85 current NHLs as well as 1 withdrawn NHL, and hence the overall count of 84 is due to crediting one (Eads Bridge) to Missouri.
• National Historic Landmarks Program, at National Park Service