A Shipbuilding Village on the Des Plaines
Rockdale was originally settled by Slovenian and Lithuanian immigrants in the 19th century and incorporated as a village in 1903. During the 1930s, the U.S. Navy built ships along the Des Plaines River at Rockdale, and the village has since seen further demographic change, with a significant Hispanic population reflecting the area's growth beyond its original immigrant settlement.
Small, Old, and Close to the Water
Rockdale's early-1900s immigrant-era housing stock sits close to the same Des Plaines River corridor that once supported Navy shipbuilding, and century-old construction that close to a river bottom is exactly where crawlspace humidity and ground moisture tend to concentrate, regardless of how well a given home has been maintained since.
Mold Remediation in Rockdale
Century-Old Construction Deserves a Careful Look
A house built in Rockdale's early incorporation years was framed for a different era's expectations of ventilation and moisture control, so an assessment here should start with the age of the structure and its proximity to the river, not a generic checklist.