Chicago Ridge, Illinois Chicago Ridge Village of Chicago Ridge Chicago Ridge is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States.
Chicago Ridge takes its name from ridges left behind when trainloads of dirt were brought out by the Wabash Railroad amid assembly of the Columbian Exposition of 1893.
Incorporated on October 17, 1914, the village has an region of approximately 2.2 square miles (5.7 km2) and is positioned in the southwestern portion of Cook County, Illinois, about 20 miles (32 km) southwest of downtown Chicago. Later, the Wabash would be crossed in the middle of Chicago Ridge by the Chicago and Calumet Terminal Railway, which also established rail yards in the village.
Both Chicago Ridge and Worth benefited from the activeness and economic influences of a racetrack operating on 111th Street.
Local inhabitants proudly recall that a member of one of the beginning families of the Chicago Ridge area, Fred Herbert, won the Kentucky Derby in 1910. The racetrack was torn down in 1911 and is now the site of Holy Sepulchre Cemetery.
After Oak Lawn incorporated in 1909, Chicago Ridge considered the move.
Chicago Ridge interval from 176 in 1920 to 888 in 1950.
With the great demand for housing and the expansion of road networks to include expressways, Chicago Ridge was poised for growth.
Chicago Ridge is positioned at 41 42 9 N 87 46 43 W (41.702482, -87.778690). According to the 2010 census, Chicago Ridge has a total region of 2.25 square miles (5.83 km2), all land. Located in Cook County, the village is 18 miles (29 km) southwest of the Loop.
Chicago Ridge's irregular shape is bounded by Oak Lawn on the north and east, Bridgeview and Palos Hills on the west, and Worth on the south. The top five ancestries reported in Chicago Ridge as of the 2000 census were Irish (25.5%), Polish (20.3%), German (19.1%), Italian (11.2%) and Arab (6.9%). In the village, the populace was spread out with 23.9% under the age of 18, 10.5% from 18 to 24, 35.9% from 25 to 44, 18.2% from 45 to 64, and 11.5% who were 65 years of age or older.
Chicago Ridge is in Illinois' 3rd congressional district.
Charles Polchow served as the first president of Chicago Ridge when it organized as a village in 1914.
Charles and his wife, the former Luzina Zippel, appeared March 10, 1897, to Chicago Ridge.
One of his sons, Herbert Polchow, became village president of Chicago Ridge in 1953.
Polchow's was one of three taverns, the the rest being John Henry Meyer's Chicago Ridge Hotel at 103rd and South Ridgeland Avenue and Liberty Hall.
The village of Chicago Ridge is governed by a President and Board of Trustees.
The Chicago Ridge Park District offers a "before/after" school care program.
Is based in Chicago Ridge, with five domestic facilities supporting North American customers.
The Park at Chicago Ridge is a 135-acre (0.55 km2) industrialized park positioned off Southwest Highway at 103rd Street, which features rail transport and easy access to primary expressways, including the Tri-State Tollway, and the Stevenson and Eisenhower expressways. The Chicago Ridge Mall (formerly Westfield Chicago Ridge) at 95th and Ridgeland has over 130 stores and a six-screen theater.
The Chicago Ridge Commons at 99th and Ridgeland has over 55 strip stores.
Commercial evolution is presently centered in the industrialized sector, the Park at Chicago Ridge. Chicago Ridge hosts the annual Ridge - Fest celebration the last weekend in July at Freedom Park.
It is one of the best-known summer celebrations in the southwest suburban Chicago area.
The Chicago Ridge Park District has 23 acres (93,000 m2) of territory available for recreational purposes, divided among nine parks including tennis courts, baseball fields, a public center/gymnasium, and a newly instead of miniature golf/batting cages complex.
Chicago Ridge has a station on Metra's South - West Service, which provides daily rail service between Manhattan, Illinois, and Chicago Union Station.
Chicago Ridge provides some enhance services.
These include the Chicago Ridge Public Library, Elden Finley Junior High School, Ridge Central Elementary School, Ridge Lawn Elementary School, Freedom Activity Center (which provides preschool), and Teen Center.
Public schooling is provided through the Chicago Ridge School District 127 .
Elden Finley Junior is Chicago Ridge's middle school.
Ridge Central Elementary School is one of Chicago Ridge's elementary schools.
Ridge Lawn Elementary School is the other of Chicago Ridge's elementary schools.
Chicago Ridge high school students attend Harold L.
"Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Chicago Ridge village, Illinois".
"Profile of General Demographic Characteristics, Chicago Ridge, Illinois" (PDF).
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