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1993 Map of Wheeling

Name: 1993 Topographic Map of Wheeling
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1993
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1993

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.

Transportation networks define the landscape, with the Wisconsin Central and Soo Line railroads cutting through growing residential tracts. Genealogists will find several local burial grounds, including Wheeling Cem and Shalom Memorial Park Cemetery. The map also captures the numerous educational facilities required by the era's population boom, such as Adlai E Stevenson High Sch and Jack London Jr High Sch.