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17-14026. FIPS code. 17-14026. Website. cityofchicagoheights.org. Chicago Heights is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 27,480 at the 2020 census. [2] It is part of the Chicago metropolitan area. Its nicknames include "The Crossroads of the Nation", "The Heights", and “The Hill”.
The Chicago metropolitan area, also referred to as the Greater Chicago Area and Chicagoland, is the largest metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. state of Illinois, and the Midwest, containing the City of Chicago along with its surrounding suburbs and satellite cities. Encompassing 10,286 square mi (28,120 km 2), the metropolitan area ...
Washington Heights is in the Chicago Police Department's 22nd District, whose headquarters is in nearby Morgan Park. [65] Between November 2018 and November 2019 3,165 crimes were committed in Washington Heights, ranking it 32nd in crime; [66] 291 of the crimes were violent, ranking the community 29th in violent crime. [66]
Violent crime rates vary significantly by area of the city, with more economically developed areas having low rates, but other sections have much higher rates of crime. [297] In 2013, the violent crime rate was 910 per 100,000 people; [ 299 ] the murder rate was 10.4 per 100,000 – while high crime districts saw 38.9 murders, low crime ...
Location of Olympia Fields in Cook County, Illinois. Olympia Fields is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 4,718 as of the 2020 census. [2] It is a southern suburb of Chicago. The municipality grew up around the prestigious Olympia Fields Country Club, originally established in 1915.
For the 2019 population estimates used in this table, the FBI computed individual rates of growth from one year to the next for every city/town and county using 2010 decennial population counts and 2011 through 2018 population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Chicago saw a major rise in violent crime starting in the late 1960s. Murders in the city peaked in 1974, with 970 murders when the city's population was over three million, resulting in a murder rate of around 29 per 100,000, and again in 1992, with 943 murders when the city had fewer than three million people, resulting in a murder rate of 34 murders per 100,000 citizens.
708. FIPS code. 17-70629. Wikimedia Commons. South Chicago Heights, Illinois. Website. www.southchicagoheights.com. South Chicago Heights is a village and a south suburb in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 4,026 at the 2020 census.