Morton Grove, Illinois Morton Grove, Illinois Official name: Village of Morton Grove Cook County Illinois incorporated and unincorporated areas Morton Grove highlighted.svg Wikimedia Commons: Morton Grove, Illinois Morton Grove is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States.
The Village of Morton Grove is represented by a governing board consisting of a Village President and six Village Trustee.
The Village President is the presiding officer of Village Board meetings.
The Village President of Morton Grove since May 13, 2013, is Mayor Daniel P.
Regularly scheduled Board meetings are held on the second and fourth Mondays of each month, beginning with a closed door executive session at 6:00 PM. The Village Board is the governing body of the Village and exercises all powers entrusted to it under Illinois statutes.
The village is titled after former United States Vice President Levi Parsons Morton, who was the driving force behind allowing the old Miller's Mill road (now Lincoln Avenue) to pass through the upstart neighborhood, and furnish goods to trade and sell.
Morton Grove was incorporated in December 1895.
Morton Grove is positioned at 42 2 28 N 87 47 11 W (42.041146, -87.786456). According to the 2010 census, Morton Grove has a total region of 5.09 square miles (13.18 km2), all land. The North Branch of the Chicago River runs through the middle of the suburb inside Cook County Forest Preserve area.
Potawatomi Native Americans, followed by French traders, first inhabited the region around present day Morton Grove.
Morton was a vice president of the United States and an ambassador to France, who also served in the U.S.
He became the Governor of New York just eight days after the village was incorporated, December 24, 1895, as the Village of Morton Grove.
During the late 1920s and 1930s, Morton Grove had a reputation as gambling destination and was the locale of many roadhouses.
Located at the northwest corner of Austin and Dempster, it became the best known and most patronized of the roadhouses in Morton Grove, Illinois.
Many businesses began to flourish amid the "Jazz Age" in the village when the Morton Grove Chamber of Commerce & Industry was established in 1926.
After World War II, a new era of expansion and prosperity began as Morton Grove entered the "Baby Boom" era.
People seeking a better life ventured into the suburbs from Chicago and found Morton Grove, especially after the Edens Expressway opened.
The populace of Morton Grove interval from 2,010 in 1940 to 3,926 by 1950.
In the village, the populace was spread out with 20.8% under the age of 18, 6.6% from 18 to 24, 23.4% from 25 to 44, 27.7% from 45 to 64, and 21.5% who were 65 years of age or older.
In 1981, Morton Grove became the first town in America to prohibit the possession of handguns.
The federal precinct court as well as the Appellate Court ruled the Morton Grove ordinance to be constitutional, thus upholding the gun ban.
According to Morton Grove's 2014 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the principal employers in the village are: 5 Morton Grove Pharmaceuticals 190 Public school districts serving Morton Grove include: East Maine School District 63 (Melzer School, Nelson School) Golf School District 67 (Hynes Elementary School and Golf Middle School) Skokie/Morton Grove School District 69 (Thomas A.
Edison School, Madison School, Lincoln Junior High School) Morton Grove School District 70 (Park View School) Maine Township High School District 207 (Maine East High School, inhabitants West of Harlem Avenue are in MTHS District) Niles Township High Schools District 219 (Niles North High School and Niles West High School) (residents East of Harlem Avenue are in NTHS District) "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Morton Grove village, Illinois".
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