Olympia Fields’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Olympia Fields. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The area that comprises the village today was once farmland managed by immigrant families during the 1830s. The Illinois Central Railroad began serving the area in the 1850s, which fostered population and economic growth during that era.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Olympia Fields’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Olympia Fields’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewAerial View of Suburban Chicago, …, 1925: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Olympia Fields, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Aerial View of Suburban Chicago, Olympia Fields (NBY 5315) (1925) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.