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Some Information on Our Town
The Little School House Museum
 Be sure to visit during the summer !!
Source of Photo: Sands of Time-150 Years Around Chatsworth
Helen Louise Plaster Stoutemyer
HLPH Publishing 1991
CAPS Recreation Center in Chatsworth, IllinoisThe CAPS Barn can be rented for various occassions like a family or friends gathering, hold an indoor yard sale, just about anything. It is smoke and liquor free.Name: Caps Recreation Center
 And visit our CAPS Lake for your swimming pleasure!!  Links to other Chatsworth websites
Here is a list of the Chatsworth churches and the addresses and phone numbers. Chatsworth zip is 60921:
Calvary Baptist Church
815-635-3458
12 North 7TH Street
First Baptist Church
815-635-3097
500 East Ash Street
St. Peter and Paul Church
815-635-3127
P.O. Box 53
St.Paul Lutheran Church
815-635-3146
105 South 6TH Street
United Methodist Church
815-635-3627
U.S. Highway 24
To contact the local historical society: Chatsworth Historical Society 424 E. Locust Street P.O.Box 755 Chatsworth, Illinois 60921 (815) 635-3124 Chatsworth Township Library
432 East Locust Street
P.O. Box 638
Chatsworth, Illinois 60921
(815) 635-3004
Fax (815) 6353004
You can donate to this Memorial Tree Fund in rememberance of your loved ones and their name will be added to a permanent plaque in The Chatsworth Town Hall.
The mailing address:
Chatsworth Memorial Tree Fund
Citizens Bank of Chatsworth
P.O. Box 877
Chatsworth, Illinois 60921
 Books about Chatsworth online
By L J Haberkorn
Published by s.n
 L.J. Haberkorn was the first fireman from Chatsworth to arrive at the scene of the wreck. This is a book of historical facts about Chatsworth, and not a chronical of facts concerning the wreck.
A must read !
By Cary Clive Burford
Published by Blade Pub. Co., 1949
Original from the University of Michigan
Digitized Aug 8, 2006
84 pages
Here is a quote from G.C.Burford's book:
Yet this event was an important his torical episode in the story of American transportation. It should be told.
It should be— it must be— preserved as surely as Carl Sandburg and other able historians relate the sufferings of the American Civil War — without doubt our greatest internal American disaster.  A fascinating book about travel on the railways during the time of the wreck. Cary Clive Burford was a resident of Urbana, Ill., and did a great job of research for this book.
A must read!
Howard S. Brode Publisher, Santa Monica, California, 1946
The author, born in 1865, grew up and spent her childhood in Chatsworth, Illinois, this is her family history of that time period. She later went to Illinois State Normal School, then taught at public schools in Seattle, WA, meeting her husband there she moved with him to Wawa, WA, where her husband taught at Whitman College. She is the author of the Ludlow-Ross Genealogy, she later retired to Santa Monica.
 A book written for and about our centennial celebration with history and many local advertisements.
 "American Aerial County Histories"See old aerial shots of you town and Livingston County New !!!!
Read the Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Livingston County Volume 2 here:
Hint: Put "Chatsworth" in the search box on the left side of page. It will then highlight each page with Chatsworth info in (red) parentheses.
Be sure to look at all of the "photograph" pages tho, as there are photos of several reknown Chatsworth residents, such as Mr. and Mrs.
Stephen Hitch, J.C. Corbett, G.W. McCabe, etc.
Read about those who served in World War I from Chatsworth or anywhere in Livingston County.
 Books about Chatsworth not found on line yet,
but can be read at the Chatsworth Library.
Sands of Time: 150 Years Around Chatsworth, Illinois
By Helen Louise Plaster Stoutemyer
Published by HLPS Pub., 1991
319 pages
 Another book about the history of Chatsworth, by Mrs. Stoutemyer, a devout teacher , historian and humanitarian. I am proud to have been one of her pupils.
A must read !
The Train That Never Arrived Niagara Excursion Aug. 10, 1887
A Saga of the Niagara Excursion Train that wrecked between Chatsworth and Piper City IL, August 10, 1887. This was written by Helen Louise Plaster Stoutemyer in 1970. Printed by The Blade Publishing Co. of Fairbury, Ill. This is a fasinating book for railroad buffs and local historians alike.
This 68 paged paperbacked book contains articles that recount the events before and after the accident. In this book it tells of how they dealt with a unthinkable tragedy for it's time. This wreck took 81 lives and wounded 372 in a era when the railroad and horse & buggy were the means of transportion. When word of the wreck began to spread the community then the County the people came to the site by the hundreds.
The Niagara excursion of August 10, 1887 had been advertised for weeks in towns all along the T.P. & W. This train started in Peoria area going to Niagara Falls in New York. Round trip fare was only $7.50; still that was alot of money for persons working for wages of two or three dollars a week. Because of the many stops and crowds getting on. The train was due in Chatsworth at 10:33 p.m., it didn't arrive until nearly midnight. Different figures were quoted as to the number of cars, from fifteen to twenty two. There was about 500 aboard. The book goes on to tell of the aftermath that this small community bore. Also includes a song, original articals, photos of wreck and of locals with items from the disaster.
 These can be read at the Chatsworth Library:
Seventy-fifth Anniversary: Saints Peter and Paul Church, Chatsworth, Illinois, 1877-1952.
By Ill Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church (Chatsworth
Published by The Church, 1952
Centennial Anniversary: Evangelical United Brethren Church, Chatsworth, Illinois, 1866-1966
By Gary Schade, Ill Evangelical United Brethren Church (Chatsworth
Published by The Church, 1966 Pioneer Families of Chatsworth, Illinois and Their Descendants
By John F Boyle
Published by American Letter Service Co, 1970 A History of the First Baptist Church, Chatsworth, Illinois
By Mrs A D Stanford, Miss Pearl Desmond, Miss Fannie Pierce
Published by s.n, 1965 Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Chatsworth, Illinois Joyfully Celebrates One Hundred Years 1877-1977: June 12, 1977.
By Ill Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church (Chatsworth
Published by The Church, 1977
The library also has:
Wienand Family History
Rosendahl Family History Locations of Livingston County Cemeteries
List from the Illinois Historical Society:
Facts about Livingston County
How many people in the United States have the same name as you? Check it out here.
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