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Ford Heights (formerly East Chicago Heights) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States.The population was 1,813 at the 2020 census. [2] A suburb of Chicago, many of the area's first settlers were African American and since its incorporation in 1949 the village has remained predominantly Black.
The Ford Heights Four (Verneal Jimerson, [1] Dennis Williams, [2] Kenneth Adams, [3] and Willie Rainge) were formerly imprisoned convicts, who were falsely accused and convicted of the double murder of Lawrence Lionberg and Carol Schmal in Ford Heights, Illinois, and later exonerated. Jimerson and Williams were sentenced to death, Adams to 75 ...
Ford Heights School District 169 is a public school district based in Ford Heights, Illinois, United States. The district is bordered by Joe Orr Road on the north, Stoney Island Avenue to the east, State Street on the west and the Conrail tracks to the south.
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The Chicago Southland is a region comprising the south and southwest suburbs of the City of Chicago in the U.S. state of Illinois.Home to roughly 2.5 million residents, this region has been known as the Southland by the local populace and regional media for over 20 years. [1]
Located within minutes of the City of Chicago along Sauk Trail and Illinois 394. The largest growth of the village came in the early 1990s when the village annexed nearly 1 square mile (2.6 km 2) as a result of a major land grab with neighbors Steger and Ford Heights. The size of the annexation was only rivaled by the growth in the early 1960s ...
Richton Park is located at (41.481992, -87.725352 [5]The village is bordered by Matteson to the north, Park Forest to the east, and University Park to the south.. According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Richton Park has a total area of 4.40 square miles (11.40 km 2), of which 4.39 square miles (11.37 km 2) (or 99.73%) is land and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km 2) (or 0.27%) is water.
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