Harvey, Illinois Harvey, Illinois City of Harvey, Illinois Cook County Illinois incorporated and unincorporated areas Harvey highlighted.svg Wikimedia Commons: Harvey, Illinois Harvey is a town/city in Cook County, Illinois, United States, and a south suburb of Chicago.
Advertisement by The Harvey Land Association that appeared on November 8, 1890 in the Chicago Daily Tribune.
Harvey, a close associate of Dwight Moody, the founder of the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago.
Harvey was originally intended as a model town for Christian values and was one of the Temperance Towns; it was closely modeled after the business town of Pullman, which eventually was took in into the town/city of Chicago. According to the 2010 census, Harvey has a total region of 6.3 square miles (16.32 km2), all land. Per the 2010 United States Census, Harvey had 25,282 citizens .
There were 7,947 homeholds out of which 43.7% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 30.1% were married couples living together, 16.5% had a female homeholder with kids & no husband present, and 28.7% were non-families.
There were 8,990 homeholds out of which 39.1% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 36.4% were married couples living together, 31.8% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 24.8% were non-families.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 35.1% under the age of 18, 10.8% from 18 to 24, 26.7% from 25 to 44, 18.8% from 45 to 64, and 8.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $31,958, and the median income for a family was $35,378.
Harvey is in Illinois' 2nd congressional district.
Harvey Public School District 152 operates enhance elementary schools in most of Harvey.
A portion of Harvey is inside the Posen-Robbins School District 143 . Harvey is positioned inside Illinois Community College District 510.
Harvey is served by two stations along the Metra Electric University Park line to Chicago.
Nine Pace bus routes serve Harvey and the Pace Harvey Transportation Center. Three primary north-south streets in Chicago venture as far south as Harvey in some capacity.
Dixie Highway, as it is known in Harvey, is Western Avenue in Chicago.
Finally, Chicago's Ashland Avenue becomes Wood Street in Harvey.
The reason for this is a surveyor's error along the line where Interstate 57 is now located; Harvey's street names and numbers conform to the section lines clean water actual distance from Chicago's base lines (as pointed out by the jogs in Halsted Street near 150th Street and 159th Street between Harvey and Markham, as examples).
Main article: List of citizens from Harvey, Illinois The Dixie Square Mall, an abandoned shopping mall in Harvey, was the locale where the famous car chase scene in the movie The Blues Brothers was shot.
"Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Harvey city, Illinois".
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