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West Springfield has its own school district, police department, fire department, library, department of public works, health department, and department of parks and recreation. West Springfield Fire Department was created in 1883 [78] and current has 11 apparatus serving out of one fire hall.
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According to the 2020 United States census Illinois is the 6th most populous state with 12,812,508 inhabitants but the 24th largest by land area spanning 55,499.0 square miles (143,742 km 2) of land. [1] Illinois is divided into 102 counties and, as of 2020, contained 1,300 municipalities consisting of cities, towns, and villages.
Of the 102 counties of the state of Illinois, 84 are organized into civil townships, usually referred to as simply "townships" in state law. All told, Illinois has 1,428 such townships, and they are the slight majority of the state's general units of local government. [1] The legal name of each township is the form "___ Township" or "Town of ...
Springfield is the capital city of the U.S. state of Illinois and the seat of Sangamon County.The city's population was 114,394 at the 2020 census, which makes it the state's seventh-most populous city, [10] the second-most populous outside of the Chicago metropolitan area (after Rockford), and the most populous in Central Illinois.
Elgin has three stations on Metra's Milwaukee District West Line, which provides daily rail service between Elgin and Chicago Union Station): National Street, Elgin, and Big Timber Road. Big Timber Road is the western terminus of this service, however it is not serviced by the Metra on weekends or major U.S. holidays as trains terminate in ...
An emergency water line connects Deerfield to Northbrook in the event that either town loses its water service. [71] Deerfield operates its own sewage treatment plant on Hackberry Lane, with the outflow entering the a branch of the Chicago River . [ 72 ]
Western Springs is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, and a suburb of Chicago.As of the 2020 census, the village had a total population of 13,629. [2]Named for local mineral springs on the southwest side of town, Western Springs originally consisted of flat prairie land with a swamp on its western border. [3]