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
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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.