La Grange
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village in Cook County, Illinois, United States of America
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Illinois
- County
- Cook
- Township
- Lyons Township
- Incorporated
- June 11, 1879
- Founded by
- Franklin Dwight Cossitt
- Named after
- La Grange, Tennessee , in turn named after the ancestral home of Marquis de Lafayette
- Village president
- Mark Kuchler
- Trustees
- Beth Augustine, Lou Gale, Michael Kotynek, Shawana McGee, Peggy Peterson
- Total
- 2.53 sq mi (6.54 km )
- Land
- 2.53 sq mi (6.54 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.00 km ) 0%
- Elevation
- 646 ft (197 m)
- Density
- 6,464.2/sq mi (2,495.85/km )
- Demonym
- La Granger
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 ( CDT )
- Fips code
- 17-40767
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- La Grange
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Cook County
- Population
- 16321
- Area
- 6.534644
- Elevation
- 197
- Official website
- www.villageoflagrange.com
- Image
- La Grange, Illinois downtown.jpg
- Households
- 5445
- Dialing code
- 708
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- category for people born here
- Q32675721
- Commons category
- La Grange, Illinois
- topic's main category
- Category:La Grange, Illinois
- postal code
- 60525
- category of associated people
- Category:People from La Grange, Illinois
- inception
- 1830-00-00
- water as percent of area
- 0
- different from
- La Grange
- per capita income
- 60162
Sources (9)
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Encyclopedic overview
The downtown district of La Grange La Grange (/lə ˈɡreɪndʒ/ lə GRAYNJ; often spelled LaGrange) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is a suburb of Chicago. The population was 16,321 at the 2020 census.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “La Grange” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.