List of windmills in Illinois

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

Windmills having coordinates below can be seen together in "Map all coordinates using OpenSourceMap" at right.

Windmill Location Type Built Notes Photograph Heidemann MillOld Mill Addison Smock 1868 Burnt down 1958 Siedhoff MillOld Dutch MillBarrington Roller Flour Mill Barrington 1867 Burnt down 5 August 1884 Depner Mill Beecher Franzen MillOld Flax Mill Bensenville 1850 Schmidt Brothers MillBenson Mill Benson Smock 1872 Jansonnist Mill Bishop Hill 1848 Holstein Mill Bloomingdale Smock 1872 Wrecked by tornado 1899, later demolished. Gridley & Covel Mill Bloomington Jung Mill Broadview Smock 1884 Standing 1884 Clark Mill Burnt Prairie 1837 Standing 1837 Blooker Mill, World's Columbian Exhibition Chicago Smock 1893 Derelict mill, Worlds Columbian Exhibition Chicago Smock 1893 Exhibited with an Aermotor windpump erected on top Old Dutch Mill, Century of Progress Exhibition Chicago Tower 1933 1934 Mates Mill, Haymarket Chicago Moved at unknown date to Milwaukee Avenue. Gray Mill, Milwaukee Ave Chicago Demolished 1910. Vanden Berg Mill Chicago McKay Mill Chicago 1851 Standing 1851. Jefferson Mill Des Plaines 1841 Fischer MillOld Dutch MillMount Emblem Cemetery MillEhlers' Mill Elmhurst Smock 1867 Closed to the public Lalande Mill Fort de Chartres 1731 Lahman Mill Franklin Grove Smock 1874 Demolished 1900 De Immigrant Fulton Smock 2000 Open and operational Fabyan Mill Geneva Smock 1915 Tallest windmill in Illinois, open and operational. Glen Ellyn Mill Glen Ellyn Burnt down prior to 1855. Prairie Mills Golden Smock 1873 Open and operational Franzen's Old Mill Golden Smock 1854 Demolished 1934 Gronewold Mill Golden 1865 Franzen Brothers Mill Gridley 1872 Rinn MillHolland Mill Hampshire Smock 1875 1883 Swearingen Windmill Industry1927-1930? Never functional. Built as restaurant attraction in the late 1920s. Still standing. Jesuit Mill Kaskaskia 1711 Milburn Mill Kentucky Wrecked by a storm prior to 1789 Lake Zurich Mill Lake Zurich 1850s Demolished in 1858 Matteson Mill Matteson Smock 1870s Schroeder MillMonee Mill Monee Smock Standing in 1910 Sauer Mill Nebraska Township 1869 Moved to Gridley 1872 Jahnke Mill Palatine 1879 Standing in 1894 Du Sable Mill Peoria 1691 Standing in 1773 Maillet Mill Peoria 1778 Peotone Mill Peotone Smock 1872 Closed, awaiting restoration Brand Mill Polo 1850s Damaged by a tornado, date unknown St Joseph Brockman MillDes Plaines MillPark Ridge MillOld Dutch Mill Schiller Park Smock 1870 Demolished 1920s Somonauk Mill Somonauk Smock Bartels MillOld MillNew Bremen Mill Tinley Park Smock 1873 Demolished 1911 Phillipe Mill Urbana Old Mill Farm Mill Winnetka Smock York Township Smock 1875 Dismantled 1914, re-erected at Geneva 1915 Unknown location Smock

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.

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