Wood Dale, Illinois Wood Dale Official name: City of Wood Dale Du - Page County Illinois incorporated and unincorporated areas Wood Dale highlighted.svg Location in Du - Page County and the state of Illinois.
Wood Dale is a town/city in Addison Township, Du - Page County, Illinois, United States.
And global communities, the City of Wood Dale, Illinois has reached out to the town/city of Cefalu, Italy on the northern coast of the island of Sicily, to establish a long term cultural, educational and company partnership between the two municipalities.
Wood Dale was originally known as Lester's Station, after John Lester, an early settler. According to the 2010 census, Wood Dale has a total region of 4.834 square miles (12.52 km2), of which 4.72 square miles (12.22 km2) (or 97.64%) is territory and 0.114 square miles (0.30 km2) (or 2.36%) is water. The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 89.22 percent White, 0.58 percent African American, 0.15 percent Native American, 3.24 percent Asian, 0.07 percent Pacific Islander, 4.80 percent from other competitions, and 1.94 percent from two or more competitions.
There were 5,117 homeholds out of which 29.2% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 58.9% were married couples living together, 8.8% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 28.4% were non-families.
Wood Dale has two major schools, Oakbrook Elementary School(k-2) and Westview Elementary School(3-5) , and one middle school, Wood Dale Junior High School(6-8) as well as Holy Ghost.
Wood Dale shares Fenton High School with Bensenville.
The city's populace was spread out with 22.4 percent under the age of 18, 7.6 percent from 18 to 24, 29.4 percent from 25 to 44, 26.5 percent from 45 to 64, and 14.1 percent who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $57,509, and the median income for a family was $62,289.
According to Wood Dale's 2015 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: At one time Claire's had a distribution facility in Wood Dale.
Wood Dale has a station on Metra's Milwaukee District/West Line, which provides daily rail service between Elgin, Illinois and Chicago, Illinois (at Union Station).
Colin Brady, American animator and film director, raised in Wood Dale. Henry Hyde, Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1975-2007, resided in Wood Dale. James "Pate" Philip, President of the Illinois Senate (1993-2003); resides in Wood Dale. Ray Soden, Illinois state senator; lived in Wood Dale. Jim Spivey, retired American middle-distance runner and three time Olympian, raised in Wood Dale. Christine Winger, Republican member of the Illinois House of Representatives (2015 present), served as a member of the Wood Dale City Council before to serving as State Representative. Annual Estimates of the Resident Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2012.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
City of Wood Dale CAFR "Wood Dale native's animation dreams take flight in 'Hugo'".
"Tool belt unlocked HGTV longterm position for Wood Dale native".
'Illinois Blue Book 2003-2004, Biographical Sketch of Ray R.
City of Wood Dale Municipalities and communities of Du - Page County, Illinois, United States Wood Dale, Illinois
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