Forest Park
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village in Cook County, Illinois, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Illinois
- County
- Cook
- Township
- Proviso
- Incorporated
- April 17, 1907 (Previously incorporated as Harlem in 1884)
- Type
- Commission
- Mayor
- Rory Hoskins
- Commissioners
- Jessica Voogd, Maria Maxham, Ryan Nero, Michelle Melin-Rogovan
- Total
- 2.40 sq mi (6.22 km )
- Land
- 2.40 sq mi (6.22 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.00 km ) 0%
- Density
- 5,970.4/sq mi (2,305.18/km )
- Per capita income
- $34,756
- Median home value
- $222,400
- Fips code
- 17-26935
- Website
- www .forestpark .net
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Forest Park
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Cook County
- Population
- 14339
- Area
- 2.40
- Official website
- www.forestpark.net
- Image
- Madison Street, Forest Park.jpg
- Households
- 6695
- Dialing code
- 708
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- Commons category
- Forest Park, Illinois
- topic's main category
- Category:Forest Park, Illinois
- postal code
- 60130
- inception
- 1907-00-00
- different from
- Park Forest
- per capita income
- 46969
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
Forest Park (formerly Harlem) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, and a suburb of Chicago. The population was 14,339 at the 2020 census. The Forest Park terminal on the CTA Blue Line is the line's western terminus, located on the Eisenhower Expressway at Des Plaines Avenue. This makes it one of just two municipalities served by the Chicago "L" train network that does not directly border Chicago (the other being Wilmette).
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Forest Park” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.