Bensenville, Illinois Official name: Village of Bensenville State Illinois Du - Page County Illinois incorporated and unincorporated areas Bensenville highlighted.svg Location in Du - Page County and the state of Illinois.
Wikimedia Commons: Bensenville, Illinois Bensenville is a village positioned in Du - Page County, Illinois, with a portion of the town near O'Hare International Airport in Cook County, officially belonging to the City of Chicago.
As of the 2010 census, the village populace was 18,352.
The Edge Ice Arena is positioned in Bensenville, former home of the Chicago Steel junior ice hockey team.
The Churchville School in Bensenville is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
According to the 2010 census, Bensenville has a total region of 5.618 square miles (14.55 km2), of which 5.57 square miles (14.43 km2) (or 99.15%) is territory and 0.048 square miles (0.12 km2) (or 0.85%) is water. Bensenville School District 100: Fenton High School which serves both Bensenville and Wood Dale Bensenville School District 2: As of the census of 2010, there were 18,352 citizens residing in the village.
In the village, the populace was spread out with 24.5% under the age of 18, 7.4% from 20 to 24, 30.6% from 25 to 44, 23.9% from 45 to 64, and 10.9% who were over 65 years of age.
About 15.4% of families and 15.7% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 24.1% of those under age 18 and 13.8% of those over age 65.
Bensenville has a station on Metra's Milwaukee District/West Line, which provides daily rail service between Elgin and Chicago (at Union Station).
According to Bensenville's 2011 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the village are: Bensenville is the site of Victory Auto Wreckers, a 7-acre (2.8 ha) junkyard on Green Street which has repeatedly aired the same commercial, starring Bob Zajdel, on Chicago tv stations since 1981.
In the tv series Boss, a multiepisode story arc involves the chief character, Mayor of Chicago Tom Kane (Kelsey Grammer), being damaged by a scandal in which he authorized the dumping of carcinogenic chemicals that soak into the groundwater of Bensenville.
The Christian metalcore band Gwen Stacy recorded the video for their single "The First Words" in an abandoned neighborhood in Bensenville.
He played basketball for the Fenton Bison, Bensenville's high school. Place Names of Illinois.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
Village of Bensenville CAFR Daren Dochterman's bio for Fenton's Wall of Fame; retrieved 23 May 2016 Daren Dochterman filmography @imdb.com; retrieved 13 August 2008 Illinois Legislative Research Unit.
AAGPL records page @aagpl.org; retrieved 13 August 2008 Archived September 7, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
Municipalities and communities of Du - Page County, Illinois, United States Municipalities and communities of Cook County, Illinois, United States State of Illinois Elk Grove Village, Illinois Elk Grove Village, Illinois O'Hare, Chicago Wood Dale, Illinois Franklin Park, Illinois Bensenville, Illinois Unincorporated Du - Page County Elmhurst, Illinois Northlake, Illinois
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Bensenville, Illinois - Chicago urbane region - Villages in Cook County, Illinois - Villages in Du - Page County, Illinois - Villages in Illinois - Populated places established in 1884 - 1884 establishments in Illinois
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