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The Old Plank Road Trail is a 22-mile-long (35 km) public rail trail in Cook County and Will County within the U.S. state of Illinois. It stretches westward from Chicago Heights to Joliet, serving suburbs such as Frankfort and New Lenox. [1]
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. [4]
IL 1 was posted on what is now IL 394 from 1957 to 1964, the old road was Alt. IL 1 during that time IL 2: 73.91: 118.95 IL 40 in Sterling: WIS 213 in South Beloit: 1918: current Originally Rockford to Dixon to Mendota to Cairo; replaced by US 51 south of Mendota IL 3: 187.44: 301.66 US 51/IL 37 in Cairo: IL 100 in Grafton: 1918: current
Lake Cook Road (alternatively referred to as County Line Road or Main Street in some areas) is a major east–west highway in Cook, Lake, McHenry, and Kane Counties in Illinois. For much of its length, it marks the border between Cook and Lake Counties, hence the name of the road.
Cook County has a modest amount of county roads after plans were made in 2009 to designate many roads on county ownership as a public service. [14] Only the designated streets in the townships of Lemont, Palos, Orland, Bremen, Lyons (south of the rivers) and Wheeling have the blue pentagon signs that are used to demarcate county roads.
Cook County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Illinois and the second-most-populous county in the United States, after Los Angeles County, California. More than 40 percent of all residents of Illinois live within Cook County. As of 2020, the population was 5,275,541.
Arlington Heights is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. A northwestern suburb of Chicago, it lies about 25 miles (40 km) northwest of the city's downtown. [2] As of the 2020 census, the village's population was 77,676, making it the 15th-most populous municipality in Illinois. [3]
The RTA sales tax was increased to 1.25% in Cook County, and 0.75% in the collar counties (from 1% and 0.25%, respectively), but one-third of the sales tax collected in the collar counties (i.e. 0.25%) is distributed directly to the counties [39] and the county boards may use that money for transportation or public safety purposes. [40]