North Chicago, Illinois
North Chicago, Illinois Location of North Chicago inside Illinois Location of North Chicago inside Illinois Wikimedia Commons: North Chicago, Illinois North Chicago is a town/city in Lake County, Illinois, United States, and an outer suburb of the Chicago urbane area.
North Chicago hosts the Great Lakes Naval Training Center and the command posts of Abbott Laboratories and Abb - Vie.
The town/city is also home to Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, which homes the Chicago Medical School, the Dr.
North Chicago is positioned at 42 19 20 N 87 51 16 W. According to the 2010 census, North Chicago has a total region of 7.915 square miles (20.50 km2), of which 7.9 square miles (20.46 km2) (or 99.81%) is territory and 0.015 square miles (0.04 km2) (or 0.19%) is water. Most of its territory drains directly to the lake, but the region drains to the North Branch of the Chicago River, and ultimately, since the engineering projects of the 19th century, to the Illinois and thence to the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico.
North Chicago includes a Lake County Forest Preserve unit, the Greenbelt Cultural Center and Forest Preserve.
Wallace Abbott moved his new company, The Abbott Laboratories, from Ravenswood in Chicago to its present locale on Sheridan Road at 14th Street.
Historically, North Chicago was known for large populations of Eastern European immigrants.
Housing was segregated in the mid 20th century, and until as late as 1957 the black section of town lacked sewers and paved roads. Latterly, Latinos have appeared in momentous numbers, especially from Mexico, and now form a notable group in the city, just as they do in Waukegan to the north.
It is possible that North Chicago has over time been the most diverse and multicultural municipality in Lake County.
At one time, Navy personnel were a primary part of the scene in North Chicago, both the "swabbies" (enlisted men) and the officers.
In the fall of 2007, the town/city rather than demolishing the buildings on Sheridan Road between Martin Luther King Drive and the barns trestle to the north, inside the framework of a new evolution universal involving tax increment financing.
Tiffany Brooks (designer), HGTV tv personality, winner Design Star, Season 8, attended North Chicago Community High School Tyrone Smith, Olympic long jumper, attended North Chicago Community High School Michael Turner, NFL running back, attended North Chicago Community High School North Chicago census figures include the Great Lakes Naval Training Center.
North Chicago Community Unit School District 187 operates enhance schools.
North Chicago High School is the city's high school.
North Chicago, by Charles M.
Robinson, in: Local Community Fact Book : Chicago Metropolitan Area (1990).
Chicago : The Chicago Fact Book Consortium, Dept of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago, c - 1995.
North Chicago, IL, by Wallace Best, in: The Encyclopedia of Chicago.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c - 2004.irac "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): North Chicago city, Illinois".
"North Chicago Homes Project Clears Slums".
Municipalities and communities of Lake County, Illinois, United States
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North Chicago, Illinois - Populated places established in 1892 - Cities in Lake County, Illinois
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