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Ford Heights (formerly East Chicago Heights) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,813 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] A suburb of Chicago , many of the area's first settlers were African American and since its incorporation in 1949 the village has remained predominantly Black.
In 1954, Sam and Jack Hoffman, owners of a father-son owned construction company, bought 160 acres of land in the area. [5] The pair constructed homes and began the development of the region which now bears their name. As residents moved in, they voted to incorporate the area, and the Village of Hoffman Estates was incorporated on September 23 ...
The Chicago metropolitan area – also known as "Chicagoland" – is the metropolitan area associated with the city of Chicago, Illinois, and its suburbs. [2] With an estimated population of 9.4 million people, [ 3 ] it is the third largest metropolitan area in the United States [ 4 ] and the region most connected to the city through geographic ...
Hodgkins is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, and is an industrial suburb of Chicago.The population was 1,500 at the 2020 census, down from 1,897 at the 2010 census.
Since the 1880s, Chicago has also been home to firms in other areas of the food processing industry, including cereals, baked goods, and candy. [ 2 ] In the twenty-first century, companies such as The Kraft Heinz Company , Wrigley , Sara Lee , and Tootsie Roll Industries , all maintain operations within the Chicago metropolitan area .
Bellwood is a village in Proviso Township, Cook County, Illinois, United States.Located 13 miles (21 km) west of Chicago's downtown Loop, the Village of Bellwood is bounded by the Eisenhower Expressway (south), the Proviso yards of the former Chicago & Northwestern, now Union Pacific Railroad (north), and the suburbs of Maywood (east) and Hillside and Berkeley (west).
Riverdale is one of the 77 official community areas of Chicago, Illinois and is located on the city's far south side.. As originally designated by the Social Science Research Committee at the University of Chicago and officially adopted by the City of Chicago, the Riverdale community area extends from 115th Street south to the city boundary at 138th Street and from the Illinois Central ...
Oak Brook is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, with a very small portion in Cook County.The population was 8,163 at the 2020 census. [3]A suburb of Chicago, it contains the headquarters of Ace Hardware, Portillo's Restaurants, Blistex, Federal Signal, CenterPoint Properties, Sanford L.P., TreeHouse Foods, Lions Clubs International, the U.S. Census Bureau Chicago regional office, and former ...