Riverwoods, Illinois Riverwoods, Illinois Location of Riverwoods inside Illinois Location of Riverwoods inside Illinois Wikimedia Commons: Riverwoods, Illinois Riverwoods Village Hall Riverwoods is a village in Lake County, Illinois, United States.
The village hosts the annual "Arts & Riverwoods" festival. A recent wave of teardowns and the lack of a small-town preservation ordinance led the Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois to identify Riverwoods in 2006 as one of the Chicago region's communities most threatened by overdevelopment. According to the 2010 census, Riverwoods has a total region of 4.016 square miles (10.40 km2), of which 3.97 square miles (10.28 km2) (or 98.85%) is territory and 0.046 square miles (0.12 km2) (or 1.15%) is water. There were 1,261 homeholds out of which 42.1% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 82.8% were married couples living together, 4.2% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 11.3% were non-families.
In the village, the populace was spread out with 27.8% under the age of 18, 4.1% from 18 to 24, 21.8% from 25 to 44, 33.1% from 45 to 64, and 13.1% who were 65 years of age or older.
As Riverwoods does not operate its own school district, most of its students attend the neighboring Deerfield precinct 109 schools: Wilmot Elementary, South Park Elementary, Caruso Middle School (formerly Wilmot Junior High), and Deerfield High School.
Certain sections attend Bannockburn, Illinois or Lincolnshire, Illinois schools.
Riverwoods is home of the Riverwoods Montessori School, a fully accredited, non-sectarian elementary school and preschool serving kids 2 12 years of age.
The Riverwoods Montessori Schools is part of the Deerfield Montessori Schools, one of the first Montessori schools established in Illinois.
Devin Hester, ex-wide receiver and kick returner for the Chicago Bears; lived in Riverwoods Christina Loukas, two-time Olympic athlete in 2008 and 2012, competing in 3-meter springboard diving; lives in Riverwoods Bruce Wolf, Chicago tv sports anchor; lived in Riverwoods Jackie Bange, Chicago tv news anchor; lived in Riverwoods "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Riverwoods village, Illinois".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
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