Author: Strobel Daisy

In Harvey, summers are warm, humid, and wet; winters are cold, snowy, and windy; and partly cloudy all year round.

Although the Harveys of the 1950s and 1960s are gone, and boarded-up homes and empty storefronts silence the city

Thousands of people and numerous businesses have left the city over the years, and the void left behind is easy to see.

Cook County, 19 miles south of the Loop. In 1889, Turlington Harvey, a wealthy Chicago lumberman and banker, organized a real estate syndicate to develop the industrial suburb of Harvey, Illinois.