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   Website. www .oak-park .us. Oak Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois, adjacent to Chicago. It is the 26th-most populous municipality in Illinois, with a population of 54,583 as of the 2020 census. [3] [4] Oak Park was first settled in 1835 and later incorporated in 1902, when it separated from Cicero. [5]

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   • Oak Park Township, Cook County, Illinois

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   Oak Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois, adjacent to Chicago. It is the 26th-most populous municipality in Illinois, with a population of 54,583 as of the 2020 census. Oak Park was first settled in 1835 and later incorporated in 1902, when it separated from Cicero.

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   How big is Oak Park Township?

   • According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Oak Park Township has a total area of 4.70 square miles (12.17 km 2 ), all land. Pop. As of the 2020 census there were 54,583 people, 21,701 households, and 12,774 families residing in the township. The population density was 11,613.40 inhabitants per square mile (4,483.96/km 2 ).

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   How did Oak Park develop?

   • Over the years, rapid development was spurred by railroads and streetcars connecting the village to jobs in nearby Chicago. In 1968, Oak Park passed the Open Housing Ordinance, which helped devise strategies to integrate the village rather than resegregate.

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   What is Oak Park known for?

   • This tradition continues into the present, as Oak Park is home to numerous theater, music, dance, and fine-arts professionals. The arts district on Harrison, bounded by Austin Avenue to the east and Ridgeland Avenue to the west, features boutique galleries, shops, and restaurants.

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   Is Oak Park a white community?

   • Oak Park maintained its majority white population through extensive and white-oriented planning, and has remained an integrated village. Pockets of racial segregation have persisted, but the community has succeeded in maintaining a public culture that takes pride in racial diversity.

   Oak Park, IL - Encyclopedia of Chicago

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4. www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org › pages › 917Oak Park, IL - Encyclopedia of Chicago

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   Oak Park, IL. Cook County, 8 miles W of the Loop. Joseph Kettlestrings bought 173 acres of timber and prairie land just east of the Des Plaines River in 1835. He erected a house on the stagecoach route from Galena to Chicago. The area was sparsely populated when the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad laid tracks parallel to the stagecoach route in ...

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   Oak Park, Illinois is a suburb of Chicago. It is west of the city in the same county. About 54,000 people live there. Ernest Hemingway was born there. Betty White was born there too. Frank Lloyd Wright lived and worked there for a while. Some of his most famous houses and buildings were built there.

6. en.wikivoyage.org › wiki › Oak_ParkOak Park – Travel guide at Wikivoyage

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   Oak Park is a city of 52,000 people (2018) in the Chicagoland area. It's essentially an outdoor museum dedicated to architect Frank Lloyd Wright . Get in. Only about 10 miles (16 km) west of downtown Chicago, Oak Park is easily accessible by the CTA Blue Line, Green Line or Metra Train.

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   The Ernest Hemingway Birthplace is a historic Queen Anne home and museum in Oak Park, Illinois, where American author Ernest Hemingway was born. Hemingway lived in the home with his family for the first six years of his life.