List of United States post office murals
Illinois

List of United States post office murals

Section Title: Illinois
Table Section Text: None

Location	Mural title	Image	Artist	Date	Notes	NRHP listed

Abingdon	Post Rider	Abington, IL Post Office terra-cotta relief, The Post Rider by Hillis Arnold of Godfrey, IL.JPG	Hillis Arnold	1941	terra cotta relief

Berwyn	The Picnic	Richard Haines	1942	oil on canvas

Bushnell	Pioneer Home in Bushnell	Bushnell, Il Post Office mural, "Pioneer Home in Bushnell" by Reva Jackman.JPG	Reva Jackman	1938	oil on canvas

Carmi	Service to the Farmer	Davenport Griffen	1939	oil on canvas

Carthage	Pioneers Tilling Soil and Building Log Cabin	Karl Kelpe	1939	oil on canvas	1989

Chicago Canal Street Station	Advent of the Pioneers, 1851	Frances Foy	1938	oil on canvas on display at Cardiss Collins Post Office

Chicago South Loop Station	The Great Indian Council – 1883	Gustaf Dalstrom	1940	oil on canvas installed at the Chestnut St. Station moved to South Loop Station

Chicago Lakeview Station	Chicago:Epoch of a Great City	Harry Sternberg self-portrait from Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood post office.JPG Chicagos Lakeview post office mural center.JPG Chicagos Lakeview post office mural right side.JPG	Harry Sternberg	1938	oil on canvas self-portrait of artist as a scientist in lower left corner

Chicago Main Post Office	Mural Maps	Charles Turzak	1937	oil on canvas, 27 panels in the many upper-floor offices of General McCoy, head of the Sixth Army Corps at one time painted over but restored in 2000	2001

Chicago Morgan Park Station	Father Jacques Marquette, 1674	Theodore Johnson	1937	oil on canvas

Chillicothe	Railroading	-	Arthur Lidov	1942	tempera on board

Clinton	Clinton in Winter	Aaron Bohrod	1939	oil on canvas

Decatur	Fusion of Agriculture and Industry	Mitchell Siporin	1938	fresco

Decatur	Early Pioneers	Edward Millman	1938	3 murals and a fresco

Decatur	Social Consciousness	Edward Millman	1938

Decatur	Growth of Democracy	Edward Millman	1938

Decatur	Frank Lloyd Wright	Edgar Britton	1938	fresco

Decatur	Carl Sandburg	Edgar Britton	1938	fresco

Decatur	Natural Resources of Illinois	Edgar Britton	1938	fresco

Decatur	John Deere	Edgar Britton	1938	fresco

Decatur	Colonel Francis Parker	Edgar Britton	1938	fresco

Decatur	Development of Illinois	Edgar Britton	1938	fresco

Des Plaines	Father Marquette	James M. Newell	1945	2 murals

Downers Grove	Chicago, Railroad Center of the World	Elizabeth Tracy	1940	oil on canvas

Dwight	Stage at Dawn	Carlos Lopez	1937	fresco

East Alton	The Letter	Frances Foy	1936	oil on canvas

East Moline	Early Settlers of Moline Along the Mississippi	Edgar Britton	1936	oil on canvas

Eldorado	Mining in Illinois	William Schwartz	1937	oil on canvas

Elmhurst	There Was a Vision	George Melville Smith	1938	oil on canvas

Fairfield	Old Settlers	William Schwartz	1936	oil on canvas

Flora	Good News and Bad	Davenport Griffen	1937	oil on canvas

Forest Park	The White Fawn	Miriam McKinnie	1940	damaged during removal; in storage at Public Library

Galesburg	Breaking the Prairie, Log City 1837	Galesburg, Il Post Office Mural, Breaking the Prairie-Log City-1837 by Aaron Bohrod (RS).JPG	Aaron Bohrod	1938	oil on canvas

Geneva	Fish Fry in the Park	Manuel Bromberg	1941	tempera

Gibson City	Hiawatha Returning with Minnehaha	Gibson City, IL Post Office mural, "Hiawatha Returning with Minnehaha" by Francis Foy.JPG	Frances Foy	1940	oil on canvas

Gillespie	Illinois Farm	Gustaf Dalstrom	1935	oil on canvas

Glen Ellyn	Settlers	Daniel Rhodes	1937	oil on canvas

Hamilton	On the River	Edmund Lewandowski	1942	oil on canvas Winner of the 48 States Competition from Life Magazine, 12/4/39

Herrin	George Rogers Clark Conferring with Indians near Herrin, Illinois	Gustaf Dalstrom	1940	oil on canvas destroyed

Lemont	Canal Boats	Charles Turzak	1938	oil on canvas

Lewistown	Lewistown Milestones	Ida Abelman	1941	tempera

Madison	Assimilation and Immigration into Industrial Life of Madison	A. Raymond Katz	1940	oil and tempera on canvas

Marseilles	Industrial Marseilles	"Industrial Marseilles" by Avery Johnson (1938).JPG	Avery Johnson	1938	oil on canvas, restored in 2005

Marshall	Harvest	Miriam McKinnie	1938	oil on canvas

McLeansboro	The First Mail Flight	Dorothea Mierisch	1941	oil on canvas

Melrose Park	Air Mail	-	Edwin Boyd Johnson	1937	fresco

Moline	Ploughshare Manufacturing	Edward Millman	1937	egg tempera on gesso

Mount Carroll	Rural Scene – Wakarusa Valley	-	Irene Bianucci	1941	oil on canvas

Mount Morris	The Growth of Mount Morris	Dale Nichols	1939	oil on canvas

Mount Sterling	The Covered Bridge	Henry Berstein (artist)	1941	tempera

Naperville	George Martin's Home Overlooking Old Naper Hill	Rainey Bennett	1941	oil on canvas

Nashville	Barnyard	Zoltan Seeshy	1942	tempera on wallboard

Normal	Development of the State Normal School	Normal, IL Post Office mural, "Development of the State Normal School" by Albert Pele.JPG	Albert Pels	1938	oil on canvas

Oak Park	The Founding of Fort Crevecoeur	-	J. Theodore Johnson	1939	oil on canvas

Oak Park	La Salle's Search for Tonti, 1680	-	J. Theodore Johnson	1939	oil on canvas

Oak Park	The Pioneer of 1848	-	J. Theodore Johnson	1939	oil on canvas

Oak Park	The Osceola – The First Shipment of Wheat from Chicago, 1839	-	J. Theodore Johnson	1939	oil on canvas

O'Fallon	John Mason Peck, First Postmaster, Handing Out Mail, 1830	Merlin F. Pollack	1939	oil on canvas

Oglesby	The Illini and Potawatomies Struggle at Starved Rock	-	Fay E. Davis	1942	oil on canvas

Oregon	Pioneer and Democracy	David Cheskin	1940	tempera

Petersburg	Lincoln at New Salem, Illinois	John Winters	1938	oil on canvas

Pittsfield	Riverboat and Bridge	William Schwartz (artist)	1938	oil on canvas

Rushville	Hart Fellows – Builder of Rushville	Rainey Bennett	1940	oil on canvas

Salem	Lincoln as Postmaster in New Salem	Vladimir Rousseff	1938	oil on canvas

Shelbyville	Shely County Fair 1900	Lucia Wiley	1941	fresco

Staunton	Going to Work	Ralf Hendricksen	1941	oil on canvas

Tuscola	The Old Days	-	Edwin Boyd Johnson	1941	oil on canvas

Vandalia	Old State Capitol Building	Aaron Bohrod	1936	oil on canvas

Virden	Illinois Pastoral	James Daugherty	1939	tempera and oil

Wilmette	In the Soil is Our Wealth	Raymond Breinin	1938	oil on canvas

Wood River	Stagecoach and Mail	Archibald Motley, Jr.	1937	oil on canvas

Sentence(s)

Edmund Lewandowski painted for the post office in Hamilton titled On the River.

final_sentence: Edmund Lewandowski painted for the post office in Hamilton titled On the River.