River Grove, Illinois "River Grove"

River Grove .

River Grove, Illinois Official name: Village of River Grove Cook County Illinois incorporated and unincorporated areas River Grove highlighted.svg Wikimedia Commons: River Grove, Illinois River Grove is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States.

River Grove is positioned at 41 55 33 N 87 50 24 W (41.925830, -87.840135). According to the 2010 census, River Grove has a total region of 2.39 square miles (6.19 km2), all land. Just like close-by Elmwood Park and Oak Park are titled after their historic elm and oak trees, River Grove gets its two-part name first from the community's shallow muddy plains river, and second from the majestic groves of American ash trees lining shore of the (Aux) Des Planes River "Bottomland".

Credit goes to the village's early German and Nordic pioneer who, already holding a great reverence for the "Mystic Ash" through old world traditions, felt that they were home again among the familiar groves of ash trees, "just like the ones they left behind".

Up until the undivided day extinction event of the American ash tree species 2006 2018, River Grove was the home to Cook County's second-oldest Green Ash with an estimated age of 240 in the "Old growth" Lafrombose Woods, along with a several other living examples of locally evolved White, Green, Black and Blue Ash types 110 160 years of age scattered around the village.

Because the invasive Asian Emerald Ash Borer kills off young trees long before they reach seeding age of 10, scientists theorize that the "Fraxinus/ash" species will no longer be able to germinate continued generations by 2018 inside the small-town woods, or only 12 years after EAB was first identified in River Grove. The ethnic makeup of the village was 92.26% White, 0.63% African American, 0.92% Native American, 2.03% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 3.65% from other competitions, and 1.37% from two or more competitions.

In the village, the populace was spread out with 21.3% under the age of 18, 9.5% from 18 to 24, 30.7% from 25 to 44, 22.4% from 45 to 64, and 16.1% who were 65 years of age or older.

Follett, a multi-national book services company, is based in River Grove.

River Grove has a station on Metra's North Central Service and Milwaukee District/West Line, which furnish daily rail service from Chicago Union Station to Antioch and Elgin, in the order given.

River Grove Elementary School "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): River Grove village, Illinois".

"The making of River Grove" (PDF).

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