Homewood, Illinois Official name: Village of Homewood Cook County Illinois incorporated and unincorporated areas Homewood highlighted.svg Location in Cook County and the state of Illinois.
Wikimedia Commons: Homewood, Illinois Homewood is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, and a suburb of Chicago.
The populace was 19,323 at the 2010 census. Homewood is a sister town/city to Homewood, Alabama.
In 2007, Forbes periodical rated Homewood as one of the three most "livable" suburbs in the Chicago Metropolitan Area. According to the 2010 census, Homewood has a total region of 5.259 square miles (13.62 km2), of which 5.21 square miles (13.49 km2) (or 99.07%) is territory and 0.049 square miles (0.13 km2) (or 0.93%) is water. It lies on the Calumet Shoreline.
A south suburban village, Homewood is 22 miles (35 km) due south of The Loop/downtown Chicago at 800 west and 18300 south on the Chicago grid system.
In the village, the populace was spread out with 27.1% under the age of 18, 5.4% from 18 to 24, 26.8% from 25 to 44, 24.3% from 45 to 64, and 16.4% who were 65 years of age or older.
Homewood is in Illinois' 2nd congressional district, presently represented by Rep.
Homewood sits on the edge of prehistoric Lake Chicago, which was formed by retreating glaciers long before Lake Michigan.
In 1853, the Illinois Central Railroad (IC) established a station in Hartford, calling it Thornton Station, as most of the passengers came from close-by Thornton.
In 1869, pioneer petitioned the postal service to be retitled as Homewood, after the woods that the inhabitants lived among.
The 1870s brought a new era to Homewood, ushered in by trains and by the crowded conditions of the city.
Country clubs such as the Homewood Country Club (later changed to Flossmoor Country Club), Dixmoor, Ravisloe, Idlewild and Calumet brought in trains just for golfers.
Wealthy families, impressed by the region and by the ease of getting to the city, established residences in the area, as permanent or summer homes.
Enrollment for the schools continued to grow, and in 1914 the school was forced to convert the cloakrooms into classrooms.
By 1928, there were enough students in the precinct to make a kindergarten class feasible, and extensive additions were made to the school.
In the 1920s, Homewood became an meaningful barns depot, and many IC workers and their families moved to the area.
As traffic in the region continued to increase, village officials decided to install the town's first manually directed traffic signal at the corner of Ridge Road and Dixie Highway.
This reconstructionmarks the change from Homewood as a farming improve to Homewood as a suburb, as families began to use stores and businesses to supply their needs.
Thirteen housing developments were recorded in Homewood from 1905 to 1930.
On July 3, 1926, Washington Park Race Track opened in Homewood and became home to a number of thoroughbred horse racing's primary affairs, including the American Derby.
With the crash of the stock market in 1929, life in Homewood changed dramatically.
The Homewood State Bank was closed in the spring of 1932.
The most meaningful of these was the Homewood Theater.
Most famous among these was on the back of the Homewood Theater, depicting it with three young women waiting to view It's a Wonderful Life.
In 1948, ground was broken for the new Ridge School, which was positioned immediately west of the Central School.
In 1958, a junior high school was assembled and titled after the area's first settler James Hart.
The building of Westgate Shopping Center, Ridge-Mar Shopping Center, Northgate Shopping Center, Cherry Creek, Washington Square Plaza, Southgate Shopping Center and the West Homewood Commons.
In 1981, the first Homewood Fine Art Fair was held in the center of the village, on Ridge Road.
Children in grades K-8 attend schools under the jurisdiction of Homewood enhance school precinct 153, although some may attend Flossmoor School District 161 if they live west of Governors Highway street and south of 183rd street.
School District 153 has three schools: Winston Churchill Elementary, Willow Elementary, and James Hart Junior High School.
The majority of students in the region then go on to attend the small-town enhance high school, Homewood-Flossmoor High School.
Homewood-Flossmoor High School is its own school district, school precinct 233.
HF also owns WHFH 88.5, the highest powered high school airways broadcast with 1,500 watts.
See also: Homewood (Amtrak station) Amtrak provides rail service to Homewood.
Amtrak Train 59, the southbound City of New Orleans, is scheduled to depart Homewood at 8:54 pm daily with service to Kankakee and points south through Tennessee and Mississippi to New Orleans.
Amtrak Train 58, the northbound City of New Orleans, is scheduled to depart Homewood at 7:44 am daily with service to Chicago Union Station.
Homewood is also served by Amtrak Train 390/391, the Saluki, daily in the morning, and Amtrak Train 392/393, the Illini, daily in the afternoon/evening.
"Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Homewood village, Illinois".
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