West Chicago, Illinois

DuPage County

17-80060

West Chicago is a city ( with a status of "City" ) in DuPage County in the northeast of the U.S. state of Illinois. In the census in 2010 West Chicago had 27 086 inhabitants.

West Chicago does not belong to the city of Chicago, but is part of the Chicago metropolitan area.

Geography

West Chicago is located at 41 ° 53'18 " north latitude and 88 ° 12'35 " west longitude and extends over 35.8 km ², which consist only of land area.

West Chicago is located 56.8 km west of downtown Chicago and Lake Michigan.

Neighbouring places of West Chicago are Winfield (6 km south-east ), Warrenville (10,9 km to the south), Batavia (11,4 km southwest), Geneva (8.8 miles west), St. Charles ( 11.2 km north west ), Wayne (10.3 kilometers north-northwest ), Bartlett (15,7 km to the north) and Carol Stream (8.4 km north-east ).

History

The former name of the city was Turner Junction, named after John B. Turner, president of the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad and founder of the city. Emerging is the name of the first railway crossing in Illinois.

1896 the town was renamed in West Chicago.

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in West Chicago 27 086 people in 7,609 households. The population density was 756.6 inhabitants per square kilometer.

The racial the population was composed of 67.6 percent white, 2.5 percent African American, 0.6 percent Native American, 5.9 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 2.7 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 51.1 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

In the 7,609 households lived statistically 3.39 per person.

32.4 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 61.4 percent were between 18 and 64 and 6.2 percent were 65 years or older. 48.6 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was $ 64,795. The per capita income was $ 24,498. 10.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Traffic

West Chicago is a hub of various railway lines of the Union Pacific Railroad. In addition, West Chicago is connected to the network of METRA, the rail network of Greater Chicago.

Through the city run the Illinois State Routes 38, 59 and 64 which are partially expanded highway-like.

To the west of the urban area is the DuPage Airport, which also serves as a relief and alternate airport for the major airports O'Hare International and Chicago Midway International adjacent to the regional air traffic.

Twinning

Since 1999, a partnership with the German community Taufkirchen ( Vils) in Bavaria.