Skokie, Illinois
Skokie, Illinois Village of Skokie Skokie (/ sko ki/; formerly Niles Center) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States.
Its name comes from a Potawatomi word for "marsh". A Chicago suburb, for many years Skokie promoted itself as "The World's Largest Village". Its population, as stated to the 2010 census, was 64,784.
Skokie's streets, like that of many suburbs, are largely a continuation of the Chicago street grid, and the village is served by the Chicago Transit Authority, further cementing its connection to the city.
Skokie was originally a German-Luxembourger farming community, but was later settled by a sizeable Jewish population, especially after World War II.
However, Skokie still has a very large Jewish population.
It is home to the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, which opened in northwest Skokie in 2009.
Skokie has received nationwide attention twice for court cases decided by the United States Supreme Court.
Skokie ultimately lost that case.
In 2001, although Skokie was not a direct party to the case, a decision by the village regarding territory use led the court to reduce the power of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. According to the 2010 census, Skokie has a total region of 10.06 square miles (26.06 km2), all land. The village is bordered by Evanston to the east, Chicago to the southeast and southwest, Lincolnwood to the south, Niles to the southwest, Morton Grove to the west, Glenview to the northwest, and Wilmette to the north.
The village's street circulation is a standard street-grid pattern, with primary east-west thoroughfare every half-mile: Old Orchard Road, Golf Road, Church Street, Dempster Street, Main Street, Oakton Street, Howard Street, and Touhy Avenue.
The primary north-south thoroughfares are Skokie Boulevard, Crawford Avenue, and Mc - Cormick Boulevard; the primary diagonal streets are Lincoln Avenue, Niles Center Road, East Prairie Road and Gross Point Road.
Skokie's north-south streets continue the street names and (house number) grid values of Chicago's north-south streets with the notable exceptions of Cicero Avenue, which is retitled Skokie Boulevard in Skokie, and Chicago's Pulaski Road retains its initial Chicago City name, Crawford Avenue.
The east-west streets continue Evanston's street names, but with Chicago grid values, such that, Evanston's Dempster Street is 8800 north, in Skokie addresses.
A 1925 "Chicago"-style bungalow in Skokie In a popular vote on November 15, 1940, inhabitants chose the Indian name "Skokie" over the name "Devonshire".
It was not until the 1940s and the 1950s, when parents of the baby boom generation moved their families out of Chicago, that Skokie's housing evolution began again.
Consequently, the village advanced commercially, an example being the Old Orchard Shopping Center, presently titled Westfield Old Orchard.
The name of the town was changed from "Niles Center" to "Skokie" by popular vote in 1940.
"Skokie" had previously been used as the name for the marshland on which much of the town was built; the term "Skokie marsh" was being used by small-town botanists, prominently Henry Chandler Cowles, as early as 1901. Maps long titled the Skokie marsh as Chewab Skokie, a probable derivation from Kitchi-wap choku, a Potawatomi term meaning "great marsh". Virgil Vogel's Indian Place Names in Illinois (Illinois State Historical Society, 1963) records the name Skokie as deriving The 1940 change of name may also have been influenced by James Foster Porter, a Chicago native, who had explored the "Skoki Valley" in Banff National Park in Canada in 1911 and became captivated by the name.
Porter supported the name "Skokie" in the popular vote when he returned to America. Twice in its history, Skokie has been the focal point of cases before the United States Supreme Court.
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In 1977 and 1978, Illinois Nazis of the National Socialist Party of America (derived from the American Nazi Party) attempted to demonstrate their political existence with a march in Skokie, far from their command posts on Chicago's south side.
Seeking another free-speech political venue, the NSPA chose to march on Skokie.
Given the many Holocaust survivors living in Skokie, the village's government thought the Nazi march would be politically provocative and socially disruptive, and refused the NSPA its permission to hold the event.
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An Illinois appeals court raised the injunction issued by a Cook County Circuit Court judge, ruling that the existence of the swastika, the Nazi emblem, would constitute deliberate provocation of the citizens of Skokie.
However, the Court also ruled that Skokie's attorneys had floundered to prove that either the Nazi uniform or their printed materials, which it was alleged that the Nazis intended to distribute, would incite violence. The attempted Illinois Nazi march on Skokie was dramatized in the tv movie, Skokie, in 1981.
In 2001, Skokie's decision to use an isolated wetland as a solid waste disposal site resulted in a lawsuit.
North Shore Center for Performing Arts in Skokie The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie view from the east The Skokie Park District maintains enhance spaces and historical sites inside its more than 240 acres (0.97 km2) of parkland and in its ten facilities.
Every May since 1991, the park precinct hosts the Skokie Festival of Cultures to jubilate the village's diverse ethnic composition.
Skokie has a sculpture garden that is situated between Dempster Street and Touhy Avenue on the east side of Mc - Cormick Boulevard.
In addition to municipally-managed enhance spaces, the village is also home to the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, encompassing Centre East, Northlight Theatre and the Skokie Valley Symphony Orchestra.
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center opened in Skokie on April 19, 2009. On October 7, 2008, the Skokie Public Library received the 2008 National Medal for Museum and Library Service from First Lady Laura Bush in a ceremony at the White House. The National Medal is awarded annually by the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services, the major source of federal support for the nation's 122,000 libraries and 17,500 exhibitions, to five libraries and five exhibitions.
Skokie Public Library is the first enhance library in Illinois to be awarded the medal. Additionally, the Skokie Library also offers a bookmobile service that provides a mini-library around the community. In 2003, Skokie became the first municipality in the United States to achieve nationally accredited police, fire, and enhance works departments, and a Class-1 fire department, per the Insurance Services Office (ISO) ratings.
Likewise, in 2003 Money periodical titled Skokie one of the 80 fastest-growing suburbs in the U.S.
Besides strong manufacturing and retail commerce bases, Skokie's economy will add community sciences jobs; in 2003, Forest City Enterprises announced their re-development of the vacant Pfizer research laboratories, in downtown Skokie, as the Illinois Science + Technology Park, a 23-acre (93,000 m2) ground of research installations (2-million ft.
Map manufacturer Rand Mc - Nally, private label cooperative Topco and online grocer Peapod are also headquartered in Skokie.
2 Skokie Hospital 1,500 8 Village of Skokie 490 Per the census of 2000, the Village of Skokie was composed of 63,348 citizens who formed in 23,223 homeholds including 17,045 families.
The average Skokie homehold size was 2.68 persons, and the average homehold family size was 3.20 persons.
Chronologically, Skokie's age populace comprises: 23.0% of minority age (younger than 18 years); 7.0% aged from 18 to 24 years; 25.0% aged from 25 to 44, 25.5% aged from 45 to 64, and 19.6% aged 65 years and older.
Financially, Skokie's median homehold income was $57,375; the median family income was $68,253; a man's median income was $44,869; a woman's median income was $33,051.
As of the 2010 US Census, Skokie had a total of 64,784 citizens inside its boundaries.
There is a large Jewish populace in Skokie and many of the encircling areas.
The Chicago Transit Authority's Yellow Line terminates at the Dempster Street station in Skokie.
Construction has been instead of on a new Yellow Line train station at Oakton Street, to serve downtown Skokie and environs.
For automobile transport, Interstate 94, the Edens Expressway, traverses Skokie, with interchanges at Touhy Avenue, Dempster Street, and Old Orchard Road.
Major highways in Skokie include: Was non-fiction novel, Jack Lund's family is from Skokie, Illinois In That '70s Show, in episode 5 of season 7, Hyde gets a statistics job and exclaims that he's frustrated that the revenue numbers for a store in Skokie "Don't add up".
Niles Township District 219, known for its fine arts program, was awarded the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts Top program for fine arts education in the United States on April 27, 2007.
Chute Middle School in Evanston serves a small portion of Skokie inhabitants of Evanston/Skokie District 65 Bessie Rhodes Magnet School, (K through 8th) of Skokie/Evanston District 65, formerly Timber Ridge Magnet School (may be attended by Skokie students in District 65) National-Louis University has a ground near the Skokie Courthouse and is a high-ranking school for education.
"Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Skokie village, Illinois".
Peter Catholic Cemetery, 8115 Niles Center Rd., Skokie 60077 Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park "Illinois Holocaust Museum Opens in Skokie: Bill Clinton, Elie Wiesel Address Crowd of Thousands".
Village of Skokie CAFR When the Nazis Came to Skokie: Freedom for Speech We Hate, Philippa Strum, University Press of Kansas (31 Mar 1999), ISBN 0-7006-0941-5 Skokie, 1888 1988: A centennial history, Richard Whittingham, Village of Skokie (1988), ASIN B00071 - EORW The industrialization of the Skokie area, James Byron Kenyon, University Of Chicago Press (1954), ASIN B0007 - DMRX8 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Skokie, Illinois.
Village of Skokie official website Brief history of Skokie Skokie Historical Society Skokie Public Library Skokie History Project (historic photographs) Skokie Fire Department History The ACLU and the Skokie march (pdf), via Chicago History Museum Skokie Festival of Cultures Skokie Local - Wiki Skokie, Illinois
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