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Lyons Township is located in Cook County, Illinois. The boundaries of Lyons Township are East: Harlem Avenue, West: the Cook-DuPage County (County Line Road), south: the line of 87th Street, except west of Willow Springs, where it follows the Des Plaines river to the Cook-DuPage County Line, North: the line of 39th Street (Southview Avenue, Brewster Avenue). The population was 109,264 at the 2000 census and there are seventeen municipalities in or partially within Lyons Township's thirty-eight and a quarter square miles of territory:
- Bedford Park
- Bridgeview
- Brookfield
- Burr ridge
- Countryside
- Hickory Hills
- Hinsdale
- Hodgkins
- Indian Head Park
- Justice
- La Grange
- Lyons
- McCook
- Riverside
- Summit
- Western Springs
- Willow Springs
There are three communities in the unincorporated areas of the Township:
- La Grange Highlands
- Pleasantdale
- Ridgewood
[edit] Races In Lyons Township
- White Non-Hispanic: 80.3%
- Black: 4.8%
- American Indian and Alaska Native: 0.1%
- Asian: 1.6%
- Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander: 0.0%
- Hispanic or Latino: 11.6%
- Two or more races: 1.5%
- Some other race: 0.1%
[edit] Lyons Township Elected Officials
- Patrick T. Rogers - Supervisor
- Mary Jo Noonan - Clerk
- Steven M. Landek - Highway Commissioner
- Barbara M. Weyrick - Assessor
- Erick R. Peck - Collector
- Russell Hartigan - Trustee
- Mary Van Allen - Trustee
- Thomas Wm. Garrette Jr. - Trustee
- Timonthy M. Sprague - Trustee
[edit] References
- "Pamphlet For Public Information" published by Lyons Township Clerk Robert S. Berliner, 1968.
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