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Valley View School District 365U (VVSD) is located about 35 miles southwest of downtown Chicago, where Interstates 55 & 355 intersect. The district comprises most of Bolingbrook and Romeoville, Illinois. Formed in 1972, the district serves the educational needs of more than 18,000 students in 20 educational facilities.
From 1901 until 1947 the 11th congressional district included Kane, DuPage, McHenry and Will Counties. Following the Congressional Apportionment Act of 1947, the district covered a portion of Cook County and the far northwest side of Chicago roughly centered on Norwood Park. [4] The district was not changed by 1951's redistricting. [5]
The 14th district takes in the municipalities of Sycamore, DeKalb, Sandwich, Malta, Cortland, Shabbona, Waterman, Hinckley, Somonauk (shared with LaSalle County), and Sandwich (shared with Kendall County); most of Maple Park; and half of Lee. Bureau County is split between this district and the 16th district. They are partitioned by Illinois ...
Romeoville is a village in Will County, Illinois, United States. The village is located 26 mi (42 km) southwest of Chicago on the Gateway Wetlands, directly west of the Des Plaines River . Per the 2020 census , the population was 39,863. [ 4 ]
Bolingbrook is a village in Will and DuPage counties in the U.S. state of Illinois.It is a southwest suburb of Chicago on I-55 and Historic Route 66 (Frontage Road). The village was a new town built on the Gateway Wetlands west of the Des Plaines River in the 1960s.
A number of areas are preserved as parks (over 20,000 acres (81 km 2) total) under the Forest Preserve District of Will County. The 17,000 acres (69 km 2 ) Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie is a U.S. Forest Service park in the county on the grounds of the former Joliet Arsenal .
There are four high schools, seven middle schools, seventeen elementary schools, one early learning center, and one alternative school in the district. The 64-square-mile (170 km 2 ) district is zoned to serve the towns of: Plainfield , Joliet , Crest Hill , Lockport , Bolingbrook , and Romeoville , as well as various parts of unincorporated ...
The district was created following the 1830 U.S. census and came into existence in 1833, five months before Chicago was organized as a town. The 2nd congressional district initially included Southeastern Illinois until 1853 [3] [4] and stretches of Northern Illinois until 1873.