List of windmills in Illinois

This is a list of traditional windmills in the American state of Illinois.

Location Name of mill
and coordinates		 Type Built Notes Photograph
Addison Heidemann Mill
Old Mill		 Smock 1868[1] Burnt down 1958[1]
Barrington Siedhoff Mill
Old Dutch Mill
Barrington Roller Flour Mill		 1867[2] Burnt down 5 August 1884[2]
Beecher Depner Mill[3]
Bensenville Franzen Mill
Old Flax Mill		 1850[4]
Benson Schmidt Brothers Mill
Benson Mill		 Smock 1872[5]
Bishop Hill Jansonnist Mill 1848[6]
Bloomingdale Holstein Mill Smock 1872[7] Wrecked by tornado 1899, later demolished.[7]
Bloomington Gridley & Covel Mill[8]
Broadview Jung Mill Smock 1884[9] Standing 1884[9]
Burnt Prairie Clark Mill 1837[10] Standing 1837[10]
Chicago Blooker Mill, World's Columbian Exhibition Smock 1893[11]
Chicago Derelict mill, Worlds Columbian Exhibition Smock 1893 Exhibited with an Aermotor windpump erected on top[11]
Chicago Old Dutch Mill, Century of Progress Exhibition Tower 1933[12] 1934[12]
Chicago Mates Mill, Haymarket Moved at unknown date to Milwaukee Avenue.[13]
Chicago Gray Mill, Milwaukee Ave Demolished 1910.[13]
Chicago Vanden Berg Mill[14]
Chicago McKay Mill 1851[15] Standing 1851.[15]
Des Plaines Jefferson Mill 1841[16]
Elmhurst Fischer Mill
Old Dutch Mill
Mount Emblem Cemetery Mill
Ehlers' Mill
41°55′46″N 87°55′24″W / 41.92944°N 87.92333°W / 41.92944; -87.92333		 Smock 1867[17] Closed to the public
Fort de Chartres Lalande Mill 1731[18]
Franklin Grove Lahman Mill Smock 1874[19] Demolished 1900[19]
Fulton De Immigrant
41°52′2″N 90°10′7″W / 41.86722°N 90.16861°W / 41.86722; -90.16861		 Smock 2000[20] Open and operational
Geneva Fabyan Mill
41°52′17″N 88°18′21″W / 41.87139°N 88.30583°W / 41.87139; -88.30583		 Smock 1915[21] Tallest windmill in Illinois, open and operational.[21]
Glen Ellyn Glen Ellyn Mill Burnt down prior to 1855.[22]
Golden Prairie Mills
40°6′22.2″N 91°0′56″W / 40.106167°N 91.01556°W / 40.106167; -91.01556		 Smock 1873[23] Open and operational
Golden Franzen's Old Mill Smock 1854[24] Demolished 1934[24]
Golden Gronewold Mill 1865[25]
Gridley Franzen Brothers Mill 1872[26]
Hampshire Rinn Mill
Holland Mill		 Smock 1875[27] 1883[27]
Industry Swearingen Windmill 1927-1930?[28] Never functional. Built as restaurant attraction in the late 1920s. Still standing.
Kaskasia Jesuit Mill 1711[29]
Kentucky Milburn Mill Wrecked by a storm prior to 1789[30]
Lake Zurich Lake Zurich Mill 1850s[31] Demolished in 1858[31]
Matteson Matteson Mill Smock 1870s[32]
Monee Schroeder Mill
Monee Mill		 Smock Standing in 1910[33]
Nebraska Township Sauer Mill 1869[26] Moved to Gridley 1872[26]
Palatine Jahnke Mill 1879[34] Standing in 1894[34]
Peoria Du Sable Mill 1691[35] Standing in 1773[35]
Peoria Maillet Mill 1778[36]
Peotone Peotone Mill
41°19′55″N 87°47′49″W / 41.33194°N 87.79694°W / 41.33194; -87.79694		 Smock 1872 Closed, awaiting restoration
Polo Brand Mill 1850s[37] Damaged by a tornado, date unknown[37]
St Joseph St Joseph Mill[38]
Schiller Park Brockman Mill
Des Plaines Mill
Park Ridge Mill
Old Dutch Mill		 Smock 1870[39] Demolished 1920s[39]
Somonauk Somonauk Mill[40] Smock
Tinley Park Bartels Mill
Old Mill
New Bremen Mill		 Smock 1873[41] Demolished 1911[41]
Urbana Phillipe Mill[42]
Winnetka Old Mill Farm Mill[43] Smock
York Township Smock 1875[21] Dismantled 1914, re-erected at Geneva 1915[21]
Unknown location Smock[44]

Notes

Known building dates are in bold text. Non-bold text denotes first recorded date. Iron windpumps are outside the scope of this list unless listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

References

  1. 1 2 "Heidemann Windmill". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  2. 1 2 "Siedhoff Windmill". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  3. ↑ "Depner Windmill". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  4. ↑ "Franzen Windmill". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  5. ↑ "Schmidt Brothers Windmill". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  6. ↑ "Jansonnist Windmill". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  7. 1 2 "Holstein Windmill". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  8. ↑ "Gridley & Covel Windmill". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  9. 1 2 "Jung Windmill". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  10. 1 2 "Clark Windmill". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  11. 1 2 "Windmills at the Columbian Exposition of 1893". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  12. 1 2 "Windmill at the Century of Progress Fair of 1934". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  13. 1 2 "Gray Windmill". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  14. ↑ "Vanden Berg Windmill". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  15. 1 2 "McKay Windmill". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  16. ↑ "Jefferson Windmill". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  17. ↑ "Fischer Windmill". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  18. ↑ "Lalande Windmill". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  19. 1 2 "Lahman Windmill". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  20. ↑ "De Immigrant Windmill". City of Fulton, Illinois. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  21. 1 2 3 4 "Fabyan Windmill". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  22. ↑ "(Unnamed Windmill)". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  23. ↑ "The Prairie Mills Windmill". Golden Historical Society. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  24. 1 2 "Custom Windmill". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  25. ↑ "Gronewold Windmill". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  26. 1 2 3 "Franzen Brothers Windmill". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  27. 1 2 "Rinn Windmill". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  28. ↑ "Swearingen Windmill, Industry, Illinois".
  29. ↑ "Jesuit Windmill". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  30. ↑ "Milburn Windmill". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  31. 1 2 "(Unnamed Windmill)". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  32. ↑ "(Unnamed Windmill)". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  33. ↑ "Schroeder Windmill". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  34. 1 2 "Jahnke Windmill". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  35. 1 2 "Du Sable Windmill". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  36. ↑ "Maillet Windmill". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  37. 1 2 "Brand Windmill". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  38. ↑ "(Unnamed Windmill)". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  39. 1 2 "Brockman Windmill". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  40. ↑ "(Unnamed Windmill)". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  41. 1 2 "Bartels Windmill". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  42. ↑ "Phillipe Windmill". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  43. ↑ "Old Mill Farm Windmill". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  44. ↑ "(Unnamed Windmill)". Illinois Windmills. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
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