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Bensenville is a village located near O'Hare International Airport in DuPage County, Illinois, with a portion of the town in Cook County. As of the 2020 census , the village population was 18,813. First known as Tioga, it was formally established as Bensenville in 1873 along the Milwaukee Road (now Canadian Pacific ) right-of-way.
Category: Ghost towns in Illinois. 5 languages. ... Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates)
Addison (partial); Bensenville (vast majority); Elk Grove Village (partial); Elmhurst (north quarter); Itasca (east three-quarters); Lombard (north edge); Villa Park (partial); Wood Dale; The south west edge of O'Hare in the city of Chicago shown on the map in beige is a separate entity comprising a portion of O'Hare International Airport, and is not part of this township.
Designated into Illinois School District #3, the land that the school was built on was donated by August Fischer. Classes were routinely held in the building until 1931. An Evangelical Lutheran church and a school for German-speaking children were also built on the grounds, but both were destroyed in a 1924 fire.
McFarland, Joe. "When Salt was Gold - Illinois DNR Archived 2017-02-20 at the Wayback Machine", Outdoor Illinois, October 2009. Springfield, IL: Illinois Department of Natural Resources. Musgrave, Jon. Slaves, Salt, Sex and Mr. Crenshaw: The Real Story of the Old Slave House and America's Reverse Underground R. R.. IllinoisHistory.com, 2008.
A massive water main break inundated a snow-laden neighborhood in the Chicago suburb of Skokie, Illinois, on Friday, flooding homes and cars and causing a frozen mess. The Weather Channel 1 day ago
The town's settlement centered on the Society of Friends and the meeting house that was first constructed there in 1859. The town was rendered a ghost town after 1870 when the expected Lake Erie Railroad did not come into town. Today the unincorporated community of Bentown, Illinois, exists near the site of the former town of Benjaminville.