History & Genealogy of
Wheeling Township
Presented by Illinois Genealogy Trails
©Kim Torp
Cities & Towns within Wheeling Township:
Cemeteries in Wheeling Township
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Randhill Park Cemetery & Shalom Memorial Park, Wheeling Cemetery, Arlington
Heights Cemetery, Elk Grove Cemetery, Memory Gardens Cemetery, Saint Marys Cemetery, Saint Paul Cemetery
History .....
Arlington Heights - "formerly Dunton, a village of Cook County, on the Chicago & Northwestern
Railway, 22 miles northwest of Chicago; is in a dairying district and has several cheese factories, besides a sewing
machine factory, hotels and churches, a graded school, a bank and one newspaper. Population (1880), 995; (1890),
1,424; (1900) 1,380. Source" "Historical Encyclopedia
of Illinois", 1901
History of Prospect
Heights
Biographies....
Online Data
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Important Addresses.....
Arlington Heights Historical Society
110 W. Fremont St
Arlington Heights, IL 60004
847-255-1225
Arlington Heights Memorial Library
500 North Dunton Avenue
Arlington Heights, IL 60004
847-392-0100
Read about their genealogy collection here
Buffalo Grove Countryside Newspaper
Website with current obituaries
Indian Trail Public Library
355 S. Schoenbeck Rd.,
Wheeling, IL
459-4100
Mount Prospect Historical Society
101 South Maple St.
Mount Prospect, IL 60056
847-392-9006
Mount Prospect Public Library
852 Feehanville Drive (temporary location)
(847) 253-5675
10 South Emerson Street, Mount Prospect, IL 60056 (under construction)
Website
Prospect Heights Library District
12 N. Elm St.
Prospect Heights
259-3500
Email Address pochg@phl.alibrary.com
www.phl.alibrary.com
Wheeling Historical Society
Wheeling Park District
PO Box 3
Wheeling, IL 60090
(847) 537-2930 (Park District)
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