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Indian Head Park, IL

Cook County, 16 miles SW of the Loop. The Potawatomi hunted and traveled along a trail (now Plainfield Road) en route to the Illinois River. Lyonsville developed as an agricultural community by the 1880s and was incorporated in 1959 as Indian Head Park. Numerous golf courses help make this an attractive suburb for commuters on the Stevenson Expressway (I-55) and the Tri-State Tollroad (I-294).


Indian Head Park, IL (inc. 1959)
Year Total
(and by category) 		  Foreign Born Native with foreign parentage Males per 100 females
1960 385   — — —
1990 3,503   6.0% — 80
  3,460 White (98.8%)      
  32 Asian/Pacific Islander (0.9%)      
  38 Hispanic Origin* (1.1%)      
2000 3,685   6.8% — 79
  3,535 White alone (95.9%)      
  32 Black or African American alone (0.9%)      
  2 American Indian and Alaska Native alone (0.1%)      
  73 Asian alone (2.0%)      
  1 Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone (0.0%)      
  19 Some other race alone (0.5%)      
  23 Two or more races (0.6%)      
  72 Hispanic or Latino* (2.0%)      

Erik Gellman
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