1993 Map of Wheeling

About this map

The Des Plaines River corridor serves as the central spine of this 1993 revision, flanked by extensive green belts including the County Forest Preserve and Dam No 1 Woods. The map illustrates the intensive late-20th-century suburbanization of northern Cook and Lake Counties, where established centers like Wheeling and Buffalo Grove expanded into the surrounding prairie. Large-scale institutional developments are prominent, from the US Military Reservation (Libertyville Training Site) in the north to the sprawling Hawthorn Center (Mall) in Vernon Hills.