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Police Districts in the 20's
Posted by:
Aiken1920
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Date: September 11, 2013 02:30PM
Can anyone point me toward a map of police districts and stations through the 1920s? I've cobbled something together using the "Disused Police Stations" article, but I'd really like to find something that lays out the boudaries...
Re: Police Districts in the 20's
Posted by:
nordsider
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Date: September 11, 2013 04:05PM
This is not a map, but it may be of some help; the Chicago City Directory, 1923, lists only the addresses of the various districts:
http://www.chicagoancestors.org/downloads/1923%20intro%20page.pdf
"Miscellaneous Information", pages 155 and 156
http://www.chicagoancestors.org/downloads/1923%20intro%20page.pdf
"Miscellaneous Information", pages 155 and 156
Re: Police Districts in the 20's
Posted by:
Aiken1920
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Date: September 11, 2013 05:26PM
Thanks, I appreciate that. I will cross-reference this with the 1923 annual report that I found here: http://chicagocop.com/resources/documents_archive/cpd_annual_reports/Chicago%20Police%20Department%20Annual%20Report%20-%201923.pdf
Does anyone know if the CPD districts were aligned with the city wards?
Does anyone know if the CPD districts were aligned with the city wards?
Re: Police Districts in the 20's
Posted by:
nordsider
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Date: September 11, 2013 06:33PM
In my old neighborhood, the police station at 2126 North Halsted, was the headquarters of District 40 in 1892, 1900 and 1910, however, the Ward numbers varied from 15 in 1888, to 20 in 1900, and 24 in 1910.
Re: Police Districts in the 20's
Posted by:
Aiken1920
()
Date: September 11, 2013 06:47PM
"the Ward numbers varied from 15 in 1888, to 20 in 1900, and 24 in 1910."
So you're saying the ward numbers are aligned with the police districts? The annual police report I have shows 34 districts numbered 1 thru 34 in 1923...
So you're saying the ward numbers are aligned with the police districts? The annual police report I have shows 34 districts numbered 1 thru 34 in 1923...
Re: Police Districts in the 20's
Posted by:
nordsider
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Date: September 11, 2013 07:30PM
Aiken1920 Wrote:
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> "the Ward numbers varied from 15 in 1888, to 20 in
> 1900, and 24 in 1910."
>
> So you're saying the ward numbers are aligned with
> the police districts? The annual police report I
> have shows 34 districts numbered 1 thru 34 in
> 1923...
It appears to me that the Ward numbers did not align with the police district numbers; at least for District 40 until the 1910 city directory. District 40 does not appear the 1923 city directory.
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> "the Ward numbers varied from 15 in 1888, to 20 in
> 1900, and 24 in 1910."
>
> So you're saying the ward numbers are aligned with
> the police districts? The annual police report I
> have shows 34 districts numbered 1 thru 34 in
> 1923...
It appears to me that the Ward numbers did not align with the police district numbers; at least for District 40 until the 1910 city directory. District 40 does not appear the 1923 city directory.
Re: Police Districts in the 20's
Posted by:
Richard Stachowski
()
Date: September 11, 2013 07:48PM
nordsider Wrote:
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> In my old neighborhood, the police station at 2126
> North Halsted, was the headquarters of District 40
> in 1892, 1900 and 1910, however, the Ward numbers
> varied from 15 in 1888, to 20 in 1900, and 24 in
> 1910.
I think that was on Canalport between 22nd & Halsted. The scotland yard station.
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> In my old neighborhood, the police station at 2126
> North Halsted, was the headquarters of District 40
> in 1892, 1900 and 1910, however, the Ward numbers
> varied from 15 in 1888, to 20 in 1900, and 24 in
> 1910.
I think that was on Canalport between 22nd & Halsted. The scotland yard station.
Re: Police Districts in the 20's
Posted by:
Richard Stachowski
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Date: September 12, 2013 10:20AM
Richard Stachowski Wrote: SORRY I THOUGHT SOUTH HALSTED NOT NORTH>
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> nordsider Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > In my old neighborhood, the police station at
> 2126
> > North Halsted, was the headquarters of District
> 40
> > in 1892, 1900 and 1910, however, the Ward
> numbers
> > varied from 15 in 1888, to 20 in 1900, and 24
> in
> > 1910.
>
>
> I think that was on Canalport between 22nd &
> Halsted. The scotland yard station.
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> nordsider Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > In my old neighborhood, the police station at
> 2126
> > North Halsted, was the headquarters of District
> 40
> > in 1892, 1900 and 1910, however, the Ward
> numbers
> > varied from 15 in 1888, to 20 in 1900, and 24
> in
> > 1910.
>
>
> I think that was on Canalport between 22nd &
> Halsted. The scotland yard station.
Re: Police Districts in the 20's
Posted by:
nordsider
()
Date: September 12, 2013 11:23AM
Two photographs of a map of the Police Districts in 1927, however, difficult to read.
Photographs from the Chicago Daily News: 1902 to 1933
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/ichihtml/
"Three-quarter length portrait of Captain John Stege of the Chicago Police Department, holding and aiming a machine gun. Stege is standing in a room in Chicago, Illinois. A map of Chicago police districts is hanging on the wall in the background."
[Police Captain John Stege, holding and aiming a machine gun].
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/I?cdn:1:./temp/~ammem_pF31::displayType=1:m856sd=ichicdn:m856sf=n082620:@@@
[Police Captain John Stege, holding an open gun case displaying a machine gun].
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/I?cdn:2:./temp/~ammem_pF31::displayType=1:m856sd=ichicdn:m856sf=n082619:@@@
Photographs from the Chicago Daily News: 1902 to 1933
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/ichihtml/
"Three-quarter length portrait of Captain John Stege of the Chicago Police Department, holding and aiming a machine gun. Stege is standing in a room in Chicago, Illinois. A map of Chicago police districts is hanging on the wall in the background."
[Police Captain John Stege, holding and aiming a machine gun].
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/I?cdn:1:./temp/~ammem_pF31::displayType=1:m856sd=ichicdn:m856sf=n082620:@@@
[Police Captain John Stege, holding an open gun case displaying a machine gun].
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/I?cdn:2:./temp/~ammem_pF31::displayType=1:m856sd=ichicdn:m856sf=n082619:@@@
Re: Police Districts in the 20's
Posted by:
Aiken1920
()
Date: September 12, 2013 07:03PM
Thanks. Those might actually work. Difficult to determine actual boundaries. but I can make some reasonable assumptions based on the district HQs and drawing lines along major streets/river/etc.
Also, great photo of Stege with the Thompson in the violin case. Really awesome.
Aik
Also, great photo of Stege with the Thompson in the violin case. Really awesome.
Aik
Re: Police Districts in the 20's
Posted by:
nordsider
()
Date: September 13, 2013 08:35AM
Aiken1920,
I want to correct what I wrote earlier,that "my old neighborhood, the police station at 2126 North Halsted, was the headquarters of District 40"; it was in fact the 40th Precinct, not District.
See --- Disused Police Stations:
http://forgottenchicago.com/articles/disused-police-stations/
The Wards in 1920
http://www.alookatcook.com/1920/index.htm#Wards
The Wards in 1930
http://www.alookatcook.com/1930/index.htm
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/13/2013 09:04AM by nordsider.
I want to correct what I wrote earlier,that "my old neighborhood, the police station at 2126 North Halsted, was the headquarters of District 40"; it was in fact the 40th Precinct, not District.
See --- Disused Police Stations:
http://forgottenchicago.com/articles/disused-police-stations/
The Wards in 1920
http://www.alookatcook.com/1920/index.htm#Wards
The Wards in 1930
http://www.alookatcook.com/1930/index.htm
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/13/2013 09:04AM by nordsider.
Re: Police Districts in the 20's
Posted by:
Sit and Stew
()
Date: September 13, 2013 09:27AM
I also noted the old Wabash district station listed there at 4802 S Wabash. Anyone know when they knocked that building down? I learned it was built in 1916 and it was diagonally across from the Rosenwald Apartments.
The neighborhood is now home to Legends South and looks nothing like it used to.
The neighborhood is now home to Legends South and looks nothing like it used to.
