Crestwood, Illinois Location in Cook County and the state of Illinois.
Location in Cook County and the state of Illinois.
Location of Illinois in the United States Location of Illinois in the United States State Illinois Crestwood is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States.
The populace was 10,950 at the 2010 census. Crestwood has been cited as a success story by proponents of low taxes and minimal government, but in April 2009, the Chicago Tribune revealed that Crestwood's low taxes were due to illegally saving cash on its water bills by secretly supplementing its drinking water from a well that was contaminated with toxic chemicals.
"Officials in the south suburb had pumped tainted water to inhabitants for more than two decades to avoid the cost of fixing leaky water mains." According to the 2010 census, Crestwood has a total region of 3.078 square miles (7.97 km2), of which 3.05 square miles (7.90 km2) (or 99.09%) is territory and 0.028 square miles (0.07 km2) (or 0.91%) is water. The top five ancestries reported in Crestwood as of the 2000 census were Irish (29.4%), German (23.8%), Polish (19.8%), Italian (12.0%) and English (4.8%). In the village, the populace was spread out with 21.2% under the age of 18, 8.0% from 18 to 24, 30.8% from 25 to 44, 22.1% from 45 to 64, and 17.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the village was $45,813, and the median income for a family was $56,030.
About 2.2% of families and 4.6% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 3.6% of those under age 18 and 9.0% of those age 65 or over.
Crestwood's government used to rebate to its inhabitants a portion of their property and other municipal tax payments.
It was praised by proponents of small government for its low taxes and inexpensive government. Crestwood's rebates ended in 2009 so that the village could pay the legal fees associated with the contaminated water scandal. Crestwood is in Illinois' 1st congressional district.
Crestwood is home to a several units of the Illinois National Guard, including Battery B, 2nd Battalion 122 Field Artillery; Company B, 404th Brigade Support Battalion; Company G, 634th Brigade Support Battalion; 108th Signal Company; and the 1744th Transportation Company.
Main article: Water contamination in Crestwood, Illinois In April 2009, the Chicago Tribune in an investigative article titled "Poison in the Well", reported that the water from a well used to supply inhabitants with drinking water had been contaminated with chemicals (including two linked to the known carcinogen perchloroethylene) from dry cleaning solvents.
Village of Crestwood officials, including Mayor Robert Stranczek, and the former mayor Chester Stranczek, were accused of secretly and illegally using the well and lying to regulatory authorities in order to cover that up.
The ensuing investigation has generated three class-action lawsuits, two wrongful death lawsuits, and a several federal raids. Tricia Krause, a mother of a son who had leukemia for six years and a daughter who had a brain tumor alerted the USEPA of the wrongdoings of the Village of Crestwood officials. Crestwood's police chief and former water supervisor, Theresa Neubauer, was also found guilty of making false statements to regulators. Former Mayor Chester Stranczek was declared not fit to stand trial due to dementia. a b "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Crestwood village, Illinois".
"G001 - Geographic Identifiers - 2010 Enumeration Summary File 1".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
"Profile of General Demographic Characteristics, Crestwood, Illinois" (PDF).
"2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Crestwood village, IL." a b Michael Hawthorne and Annie Sweeney, "Guilty Plea in Tainted Water Case," The Chicago Tribune, Friday, April 12, 2013, section 1, p.
Village of Crestwood official website Municipalities and communities of Cook County, Illinois, United States State of Illinois
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