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  1. Robbins, IL. Cook County, 17 miles south of the Loop. Robbins is the oldest majority-black suburb in the Chicago area and one of the oldest incorporated black municipalities in the United States. Robbins is also characteristic of semirural black suburbs that developed in the United States during the Great Migration .

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  2. Robbins, Illinois. Location of Robbins in Cook County, Illinois. /  41.64306°N 87.70806°W  / 41.64306; -87.70806. Robbins is a village southwest of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 4,629 at the 2020 census. [2] Darren E. Bryant is the current mayor of Robbins.

    • United States
    • Illinois
    • 1917
    • Cook
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  4. Robbins, Illinois, is a village and a south suburb of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Robbins is one of the oldest incorporated Black communities in the United States and the oldest Black suburb in the Chicagoland area. Robbins was named for Eugene S. Robbins, a real estate developer who laid out the village's early subdivisions.

  5. Robbins, IL. Robbins was incorporated on December 14, 1917 and named for Eugene S. Robbins, a white real estate developer who laid out the village's early subdivisions. The village's founder and first mayor was Thomas J. Kellar, who noted in an early interview "Our people in Robbins are mostly people who get tired of the white fights and the ...

  6. Born in 1845 James Harvey was the last documented black Civil War soldier in the United States who after the war married and moved his family north settling in unincorporated Robbins, IL in 1892. His son,Wm Harvey, was appointed Robbins first Fire Chief in 1917 when Robbins was formerly Incorporated. In 1945 James Harvey died in Robbins at the ...

  7. This Robbins. Historical Society was first established in September 1980. It was. re-established as a museum in 1999 as Robbins Historical Society. Museum located at 3644 W. 139th ST. P.O. Box 1561 Robbins, IL. 60472. The latest financial reports for this organization is filed with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.

  8. A Proactive Approach. Maintaining Robbins is not going to be easy, but we have a legacy of making it work. Our village is small, and it's mostly residential, but its people are strong and robust. With this truth, we realize that the people of Robbins are this villages greatest asset, and now more than ever we are ready to transform Robbins into ...

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