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National Register of Historic Places listings in Illinois

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ1679966 ↗
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This is a list of properties and districts in Illinois that are on the National Register of Historic Places. There are over 1,900 in total. Of these, 85 are National Historic Landmarks. There are listings in all of the state's 102 counties.

Numbers of listings by county

Adams County

Alexander County

Bond County

Boone County

Brown County

Former listing

Bureau County

Calhoun County

Carroll County

Cass County

Former listing

Champaign County

Christian County

Clark County

Clay County

Clinton County

Coles County

Cook County

Crawford County

Cumberland County

DeKalb County

DeWitt County

Douglas County

Former listing

DuPage County

Edgar County

Edwards County

Effingham County

Fayette County

Former listings

Ford County

Franklin County

Fulton County

Gallatin County

Greene County

Grundy County

Hamilton County

Hancock County

Hardin County

Henderson County

Henry County

Iroquois County

Jackson County

Jasper County

Jefferson County

Jersey County

Jo Daviess County

Johnson County

Kane County

Kankakee County

Kendall County

Knox County

LaSalle County

Lake County

Lawrence County

Lee County

Livingston County

Logan County

McDonough County

McHenry County

McLean County

Macon County

Macoupin County

Madison County

Marion County

Marshall County

Mason County

Massac County

Former listing

Menard County

Mercer County

Monroe County

Montgomery County

Morgan County

Moultrie County

Ogle County

Peoria County

Perry County

Piatt County

Pike County

Pope County

Pulaski County

Putnam County

Randolph County

Richland County

Rock Island County

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