Lyons Township, Cook County, Illinois

Lyons Township
—  Township  —
Location in Cook County
Cook County's location in Illinois
Coordinates: 41°46′29″N 87°51′35″W
Country	United States
State	Illinois
County	Cook
Government
• Supervisor	Russell Hartigan
Area
• Total	36.95 sq mi (95.7 km2)
• Land	36.38 sq mi (94.21 km2)
• Water	0.57 sq mi (1.49 km2)  1.56%
Elevation	620 ft (189 m)
Population (2000)
• Total	109,264
• Density	3,003.4/sq mi (1,159.8/km2)
Time zone	CST (UTC-6)
• Summer (DST)	CDT (UTC-5)
ZIP codes	60402, 60455, 60457, 60458, 60480 60501, 60513, 60521, 60525, 60526, 60534, 60546, 60558 60638
GNIS feature ID	0429298

Lyons Township is one of thirty townships in Cook County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2000 census, its population was 109,264. Lyons Township was established in 1850.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, Lyons Township covers an area of 36.95 square miles (95.7 km²); of this, 36.38 square miles (94.2 km²) (98.44 percent) is land and 0.57 square miles (1.5 km²) (1.56 percent) is water.

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). There are seventeen municipalities in or partially within Lyons Township's thirty-seven 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

Adjacent townships

• Proviso Township (north)
• Berwyn Township (northeast)
• Riverside Township (northeast)
• Stickney Township (east)
• Worth Township (southeast)
• Palos Township (south)
• Lemont Township (southwest)
• Downers Grove Township, DuPage County (west)
• York Township, DuPage County (northwest)

Cemeteries

The township contains these six cemeteries: Archer Woods Memorial Park, Bethania, LaGrange, Lithuanian National, Resurrection and Saint Johns.

Major highways

• Interstate 55
• Interstate 294
• U.S. Route 12
• U.S. Route 34
• Illinois Route 43
• Illinois Route 171

Airports and landing strips

• La Grange Memorial Hospital Heliport
• Pielet Summit Heliport

Rivers

• Des Plaines River

Landmarks

• Arie Crown Forest Preserve
• Buffalo Woods (Cook County Forest Preserves)
• Columbia Woods (Cook County Forest Preserves)

Demographics

• 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%

Elected officials

• Steven M. Landek - Supervisor
• Mary Jo Noonan - Clerk
• Barbara M. Weyrick - Assessor
• Sean McDermott - Highway Commissioner
• Steve Krueger - Collector
• Mark Anderson - Trustee, Liaison Special Police Advisory
• Thomas Wm. Garrette Jr. - Trustee, Finance Chairman
• William Mundy - Trustee, Liaison Senior Advisory, Building & Grounds
• Timonthy M. Sprague - Trustee, Liaison Mental Health Advisory, Committee on Youth Chairman

References

• "Lyons Township, Cook County, Illinois". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:0429298. Retrieved 2010-01-10. 

• "Pamphlet For Public Information" published by Lyons Township Clerk Robert S. Berliner, 1968.
• United States Census Bureau 2007 TIGER/Line Shapefiles
• United States National Atlas

External links

• US Census
• City-data.com
• Lyons Township Information Center
• Cook County official site