Tinley Park, Illinois Tinley Park, Illinois Tinley Park, Ill..JPG Location in Cook County and the state of Illinois.
Location in Cook County and the state of Illinois.
Location of Illinois in the United States Location of Illinois in the United States Tinley Park is a village positioned in Cook County, Illinois, United States, with a small portion in Will County.
In 2009, Tinley Park was chose by Business - Week as the best place to raise a family in America.
Settlement of the region which now comprises Tinley Park began in the 1820s by emigrants from the Eastern United States.
In the late 19th century, barns s period rapidly, and the village happened to be positioned on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad line.
The influence of the barns on Bremen was so great that, in 1890, its name was changed to Tinley Park with respect to the village's first barns station agent, Samuel Tinley, Sr.
1905 saw the Diamond Spiral Washing Machine Company found its first factory in Tinley Park.
A bottling facility for soda was directed in Tinley Park until the 1950s.
In the latter part of the 20th century, Tinley Park was, and remains to be, an region of rapid suburban expansion to the west and south of the initial site, with over 11,000 housing units constructed between 1970 and 1994. After its centennial (1992), Tinley Park from the late 20th century to the present has been concentrated on renovation of its downtown historic district.
Downtown renovation projects include the creation of a park near the Oak Park Avenue Metra train station, as well as the recent South Street Project, a multimillion-dollar universal that will problematic more than 220 apartements and 40,000 square feet (4,000 m2) of commercial retail space.
The Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre (Tinley Park, Illinois) (formerly titled "The World Music Theater", "Tweeter Center Chicago", and until 2015, "First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre"), an outside venue which seats 28,000, is positioned in Tinley Park. Tinley Park was the site of the Tinley Park Lights, an anomalous multiple mass UFO sighting event in 2004, 2005 and 2006.
Tinley Park is positioned at 41 34 26 N 87 48 14 W (41.573800, -87.803891). According to the 2010 census, Tinley Park has a total region of 16.039 square miles (41.54 km2), of which 16.02 square miles (41.49 km2) (or 99.88%) is territory and 0.019 square miles (0.05 km2) (or 0.12%) is water. The village lies on the Tinley Moraine and/or the Valparaiso Moraine.
The top five ancestries reported in Tinley Park as of the 2000 census were Irish (25.5%), German (23.1%), Polish (19.9%), Italian (14.3%) and Dutch (5.3%). In the village, the populace was spread out with 26.6% under the age of 18, 8.1% from 18 to 24, 31.0% from 25 to 44, 23.5% from 45 to 64, and 10.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the village was $61,648, and the median income for a family was $71,858 (these figures had risen to $70,480 and $84,072 in the order given as of a 2007 estimate).
Tinley Park is divided between two congressional districts.
Most of the village, including all the region in Bremen Township and Rich Township, as well as the region in Will County, is in Illinois's 1st congressional district; the region in Orland Township south of 167th Street, as well as most of the region southwest of 163rd Street and Ozark Avenue, is in the 3rd district.
Tinley Park includes four enhance elementary school districts - Kirby School District 140, Community Consolidated School District 146, Summit Hill Elementary School District 161, and Elementary School District 159. George, which is Catholic; Trinity Lutheran, affiliated with the LCMS; and Southwest Chicago Christian School of Tinley Park. Andrew High School (Consolidated High School District 230) and Tinley Park High School (Bremen Community High School District 228) are both secondary schools positioned in Tinley Park.
A small portion of Tinley Park students go to Lincoln-Way East High School.
Most inhabitants of Tinley Park are positioned inside the residency boundaries for Moraine Valley Community College; the rest reside in the improve college precinct for South Suburban College.
A very small portion of Tinley Park goes to Joliet Junior College.
"Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Tinley Park village, Illinois".
"Tinley Park music theater gets new name, again".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
Profile of Selected Social Characteristics, Tinley Park, Illinois.
"Tinley Park Campus".
Village of Tinley Park official website Tinley Park Public Library Municipalities and communities of Cook County, Illinois, United States Municipalities and communities of Will County, Illinois, United States
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