Official name: City of Burbank Cook County Illinois incorporated and unincorporated areas Burbank highlighted.svg Location in Cook County and the state of Illinois.
Location of Illinois in the United States Burbank is a town/city in Cook County, Illinois, United States.
It is positioned at the southwest edge of the town/city of Chicago; the Chicago town/city limit specifically that of the Ashburn neighborhood is in common with Burbank's easterly town/city limit.
Burbank shares a boundary with Oak Lawn to its south, Bridgeview to its west, and Bedford Park to its north; the town/city of Hometown is also adjoining to Burbank's southeast corner.
In 1850, the region which would turn into the town/city of Burbank, then largely uninhabited and agrarian, became part of Lyons Township.
Over the next hundred years the region remained largely undeveloped, though a several times large plans were laid out for the area, never to come to fruition.
Stickney prepared a large barns transfer center which encompassed what became the northern part of Burbank, but his ideas were never realized due to an economic depression in 1893.
Although still unincorporated, this led to massive evolution in the area, and by 1960 the populace of the region had reached 20,720, nearly triple the populace of a decade earlier.
The region was incorporated into a town/city in 1970, partly to resist annexation by the City of Chicago.
The town/city was titled after Luther Burbank Elementary School, an institution which had served the region since the 1930s.
Burbank has been in Illinois' 3rd congressional precinct since 1983.
The town/city was in the 4th District from 1973 to 1983, before to which the region had been in the 5th District since the 1940s.
According to the 2010 census, Burbank has a total region of 4.17 square miles (10.80 km2), all land. As of the census of 2000, there were 27,902 citizens , 9,317 homeholds, and 7,267 families residing in the city.
The top five non-Hispanic ancestries reported in Burbank as of the 2000 census were Polish (30.3%), Irish (18.7%), German (16.1%), Italian (9.3%) and Arab (4.6%). Burbank's 8,427 Polish inhabitants gave it a higher total in that regard than such much larger metros/cities as Charlotte, North Carolina, Memphis, Tennessee and Washington, D.C.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 25.1% under the age of 18, 9.9% from 18 to 24, 28.0% from 25 to 44, 22.8% from 45 to 64, and 14.1% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $49,388, and the median income for a family was $56,279.
About 4.5% of families and 5.1% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 6.4% of those under age 18 and 3.9% of those age 65 or over. United States Enumeration Bureau.
Profile of Selected Social Characteristics, Burbank, Illinois.
Municipalities and communities of Cook County, Illinois, United States
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