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Maywood, Illinois

Coordinates:41°52′52″N87°50′36″W/ 41.88111°N 87.84333°W/41.88111; -87.84333
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Maywood, Illinois
Village
Masonic Temple
Masonic Temple
Flag of Maywood, Illinois
Flag
Official seal of Maywood, Illinois
Seal
Motto:
"Village of Eternal Light"
Location of Maywood in Cook County, Illinois.
Location of Maywood in Cook County, Illinois.
Maywood is located in Greater Chicago
Maywood
Maywood
Maywood is located in Illinois
Maywood
Maywood
Maywood is located in the United States
Maywood
Maywood
Coordinates:41°52′52″N87°50′36″W/ 41.88111°N 87.84333°W/41.88111; -87.84333
CountryUnited States
StateIllinois
CountyCook
TownshipProviso
Area
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• Total2.72 sq mi (7.04 km2)
• Land2.72 sq mi (7.04 km2)
• Water0.00 sq mi (0.00 km2)
Population
(2020)
• Total23,512
• Density8,653.66/sq mi (3,340.70/km2)
Time zoneUTC−6(CST)
• Summer (DST)UTC−5(CDT)
ZIP Codes
60153–60155
Area codes708/464
FIPS code17-47774
Wikimedia CommonsMaywood, Illinois
Websitewww.maywood-il.org

Maywoodis avillageinCook County, Illinois,United States, in theChicago metropolitan area.It was founded on April 6, 1869,[2]and organized October 22, 1881.[3]The population was 23,512 at the2020 census.[4]

History

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There was limited European-American settlement in the Maywood area before a railroad was built after theAmerican Civil War,which stimulated the rise of Chicago. At least one house in what became Maywood is known to have been used as a station on theUnderground Railroad,to aid refugeeAfrican-American slavesin escaping to freedom in the North. Some settled in the free state of Illinois; others went on to Canada, which had abolished slavery, seeking further distance from slavecatchers. The site of the former house has been nationally commemorated. The plaque is located at today's Lake Street and theDes Plaines Riverbridge.[5]

This early West Sidesuburb of Chicagowas developed along the oldest railway line that led away from the city. It attracted real estate developers because of its open grass prairie and scattered groves of ancient trees.

In 1868,Vermontbusinessmen established the Maywood Company. In 1870 it organized the platting of streets, and began construction on the north side of theChicago Great Westernrailroad tracks. The company planted 20,000 eight-year-old, nursery-grown trees to enhance the future town. By 2010, the last of these 148-year-old trees had succumbed to theemerald ash borer.

The oldest documentedash treein northeast Illinois is in Maywood and is dated at 250 years old. It is being protected from the borers with horticultural treatment. The danger is expected to pass locally by year 2020, as it already has inCanton, Michigan,where borers were first seen. The ash is nicknamed "The Great Dane", afterJens Jensen,founder of the Midwest's prairie ecology movement a century ago. The tree is located within old growth woods just behindProviso East high school.[citation needed]

With settlement underway, the village was founded on October 22, 1881, by ColonelWilliam T. Nichols.He named it after his late daughter, May, and the groves.[6]

Many century-old homes survive here in relatively unaltered condition. Maywood boasts 17 homes and properties listed on theNational Register of Historic Places.[7][8]

At one time two airports operated in Maywood.Loyola University Medical Centerwas developed on the site of one former airport, at the southwest corner of First Avenue and Roosevelt Road. It was the airfield used byCharles Lindberghduring his days as an airmail pilot.[9]

Checkerboard Field was located at the southeastern corner of that intersection and was a private field. The land has been converted to a forest preserve meadow. There was some apparent consolidation of the fields in later years. Later, an automobileboardracetrack was located here, along with a viewing grandstand.Barney Oldfieldraced on the track.[10]TheHines Veterans Hospitalconstructed one of its buildings on the foundation of the former grandstand.

Maywood in World War II

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Maywood was established as the base for the 33rd Tank Company,Illinois National Guard.The Armory was located on Madison Street, two blocks east of First Avenue. It was organized on May 3, 1929, with the purpose of training men for combat. On November 25, 1940, 122 men of the 33rd Tank Company were inducted into active service to become Company B of the famous192nd Tank Battalion,which fought in thePhilippineislands. Many of these American soldiers were taken prisoner by the Japanese and died in April 1942 on theBataan Death March.Of the 122 men of Company B, only 41 survived the war to return to Maywood. Their sacrifice has been honored with an annual Bataan Day Parade.[11][12]

Given such losses, Ian Smith, who headed the history department atProviso East High School,said that "World War II hit the town of Maywood really hard."[13]

Geography

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According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Maywood has a total area of 2.72 square miles (7.04 km2), all land.[14]

Neighboring villages areBroadviewto the south,Forest ParkandRiver Forestto the east,Melrose Parkto the north, andBellwoodto the west.

Demographics

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Historical population
CensusPop.Note%±
1880716—
19004,532—
19108,03377.3%
192012,07250.3%
193025,829114.0%
194026,6483.2%
195027,4733.1%
196027,330−0.5%
197029,0196.2%
198027,998−3.5%
199027,139−3.1%
200026,987−0.6%
201024,090−10.7%
202023,512−2.4%
U.S. Decennial Census[15]
2010-2020[16]
Maywood village, Illinois – Racial and ethnic composition
Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.
Race / Ethnicity(NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop 2000[17] Pop 2010[18] Pop 2020[16] % 2000 % 2010 % 2020
Whitealone (NH) 1,488 891 722 5.51% 3.70% 3.07%
Black or African Americanalone (NH) 22,208 17,781 14,193 82.29% 73.81% 60.36%
Native AmericanorAlaska Nativealone (NH) 31 25 19 0.11% 0.10% 0.08%
Asianalone (NH) 80 118 110 0.30% 0.49% 0.47%
Pacific Islanderalone (NH) 1 0 4 0.00% 0.00% 0.02%
Some Other Race alone (NH) 32 20 61 0.12% 0.08% 0.26%
Mixed Race or Multi-Racial(NH) 304 256 401 1.13% 1.06% 1.71%
Hispanic or Latino(any race) 2,843 4,999 8,002 10.53% 20.75% 34.03%
Total 26,987 24,090 23,512 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
1st Avenue entry to Illinois Prairie Path with Maywood logo
1st Avenue entry to Illinois Prairie Path with Maywood logo

As of the2020 census[19]there were 23,512 people, 7,634 households, and 5,065 families residing in the village. The population density was 8,653.66 inhabitants per square mile (3,341.20/km2). There were 8,444 housing units at an average density of 3,107.84 per square mile (1,199.94/km2). The racial makeup of the village was 61.05%African American,7.35%White,1.49%Native American,0.57%Asian,0.05%Pacific Islander,20.05% fromother races,and 9.45% from two or more races.HispanicorLatinoof any race were 34.03% of the population.

There were 7,634 households, out of which 32.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 35.68% were married couples living together, 24.09% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.65% were non-families. 27.94% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.33% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.86 and the average family size was 3.04.

The village's age distribution consisted of 20.8% under the age of 18, 11.2% from 18 to 24, 27.1% from 25 to 44, 26.9% from 45 to 64, and 13.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37.4 years. For every 100 females, there were 96.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.0 males.

The median income for a household in the village was $56,623, and the median income for a family was $64,212. Males had a median income of $33,250 versus $30,324 for females. Theper capita incomefor the village was $23,725. About 9.6% of families and 11.7% of the population were below thepoverty line,including 16.9% of those under age 18 and 11.5% of those age 65 or over.

Education

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Maywood-Melrose Park-Broadview School District 89operates elementary and middle schools.Proviso Township High Schools District 209operates high schools, withProviso East High Schoolbeing located in Maywood.

Emerson Elementary School is an elementary school in Maywood. Enrollment as of 2006 was 476 students.[20]The school teaches grades kindergarten through fifth grade. Other elementary schools in Maywood include Garfield, Lincoln, Washington Dual Language Academy and Irving Middle School. Maywood residents may apply toProviso Math & Science AcademyinForest Park.

Triton Collegeis the area community college.

Infrastructure

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Maywood Commuter Station with CSX freight train passing
Maywood Commuter Station with CSX freight train passing

Transportation

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Public transportation

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The Village of Maywood is served by theMetracommuterrailroadUnion Pacific West Line.Trains go east toOgilvie Transportation Centerin Chicago and as far west asElburn,Illinois.Travel time fromMaywood stationto Ogilvie is 22 to 27 minutes. There are 13 inbound trains on weekdays, five on Saturdays and four on Sundays. Maywood station is in the heart of Maywood'sbusiness district.Maywood is also served byMelrose Park station,located on the border of Maywood andMelrose Parkon the west side of town.

Pace Busserves Maywood with lines and stops throughout the Village.

Illinois Prairie Path

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TheIllinois Prairie Pathis a multi-use nature trail for non-motorized public use: it stretches for approximately 61 miles in Cook, DuPage and Kane counties in northeastern Illinois. It was the first U.S.rail-to-trailconversion in the nation in the 1960s, adapting a formerright-of-wayfor the old Chicago Aurora & Elgin electric railroad.

In Maywood, the path runs between North and South Maywood Drive on the west side of town and along the Adams Street right-of way.[21]

Motor vehicle and air travel

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Interstate 290,theEisenhower Expressway,bisects (north and south) the town as it goes from Chicago west to joinInterstate 294,the Tri-State Tollway, inHillside.Maywood is located betweenO'HareandMidwayairports.

Notable people

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References

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  1. ^"2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files".United States Census Bureau.RetrievedMarch 15,2022.
  2. ^Franzosenbusch Heritage Project
  3. ^Village of MaywoodArchivedJune 1, 2007, at theWayback Machine
  4. ^"Maywood village, Illinois".United States Census Bureau.RetrievedJanuary 30,2022.
  5. ^"Underground Railroad Memorial - Maywood, IL - Illinois Historical Markers on".Waymarking. October 15, 2010.RetrievedMay 3,2022.
  6. ^"Village of Maywood, Illinois - Village of Maywood, IL".
  7. ^"Story Map Shortlist".RetrievedJuly 24,2018.
  8. ^National Register of Historical Places
  9. ^Lindbergh, Charles A. (1953),The Spirit of St. Louis(1 ed.),Charles Scribner's Sons,p. 4
  10. ^Borgeson, Griffith (1998),The Golden Age of the American Racing Car(2 ed.), SAE, p. 132,ISBN978-0-7680-0023-8
  11. ^[Geserick, June; "MAYWOOD SHOWS SONS IT WON'T FORGET HEROISM: 30,000 See Ceremonies of Bataan Day"; September 13, 1942;Chicago Daily Tribune (1872–1963);ProQuest Historical Newspapers Chicago Tribune (1849–1986). (Document ID: 473319512); accessed July 22, 2009]
  12. ^"Maywood Marks Bataan",Pioneer Press(Maywood), September 10, 2009
  13. ^Benson, Heidi (April 17, 2005)."Historian Iris Chang won many battles / The war she lost raged within".San Francisco Chronicle.RetrievedJanuary 2,2020.
  14. ^"Gazetteer Files".Census.gov.RetrievedJune 29,2022.
  15. ^"Census of Population and Housing from 1790".US Census Bureau.RetrievedJanuary 24,2022.
  16. ^ab"P2 Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Maywood village, Illinois".United States Census Bureau.
  17. ^"P004: Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2000: DEC Summary File 1 – Maywood village, Illinois".United States Census Bureau.
  18. ^"P2 Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2010: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Maywood village, Illinois".United States Census Bureau.
  19. ^"Explore Census Data".data.census.gov.RetrievedJune 28,2022.
  20. ^Irving Elementary School – Maywood, Illinois – IL – school overview
  21. ^"Trail Map - Illinois Prairie Path".Illinois Prairie Path.RetrievedJuly 24,2018.
  22. ^Eltagouri, Marwa (June 16, 2016)."Eugene Moore, former Cook County recorder of deeds, dies at 73".Chicago Tribune.RetrievedNovember 5,2020.
  23. ^"Maywood Entryway Signs Unveiling, August 17".The Village Free Press.RetrievedJanuary 20,2016.
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