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The Greater Chicago Food Depository (GCFD) is a nonprofit organization that fights hunger throughout Cook County, Illinois. The GCFD distributes donated and purchased food through a network of 700 food pantries, soup kitchens , shelters and community programs, serving more than 800,000 adults and children every year.
The Chicago Portage National Historic Site is a National Historic Site commemorating the importance of the Chicago Portage [2] in Lyons, Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is located in Chicago Portage Forest Preserve and the Ottawa Trail Woods Forest Preserve, at the junction of Portage Creek with the Des Plaines River , on the west side ...
Union County: William M. Alexander, settler and state representative in the Illinois General Assembly: 4,695: 236 sq mi (611 km 2) Bond County: 005: Greenville: 1817: Crawford County, Edwards County, and Madison County: Shadrach Bond (1773–1832), first Governor of Illinois: 16,450: 380 sq mi (984 km 2) Boone County: 007: Belvidere: 1837 ...
Berwyn (/ ˈ b ɜːr w ɪ n /) is a suburban city in Cook County, Illinois, United States, coterminous with Berwyn Township, which was formed in 1908 after breaking off from Cicero Township. As of the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 57,250. [2] It is part of the Chicago metropolitan area.
Homewood is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States.The population was 19,463 at the 2020 census. [3]The village sits just a few miles south of Chicago proper. It is bordered by Chicago Heights and Flossmoor to the south, Hazel Crest to the west, East Hazel Crest and Harvey to the north, Glenwood to the east, and South Holland to the northeast.
Oswego is known to some Chicago-area residents for the town dragstrip on State Route 34, which was open from 1955 until 1979, where muscle cars were raced by drivers from all over the Midwest. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] The drag days are still celebrated even though the strip has been closed for decades. [ 15 ]
As of 2021, existing state law sets a limit for individual campaign donations for city and county candidates at $5,500, but that does not include school board, community college board or special ...
Maywood is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, in the Chicago metropolitan area. It was founded on April 6, 1869, [ 2 ] and organized October 22, 1881. [ 3 ] The population was 23,512 at the 2020 census .