Blue Island
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city in Cook County, Illinois, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Illinois
- Counties
- Cook
- Townships
- Bremen , Worth , Thornton
- Incorporated
- October 26, 1872
- Type
- Mayor-council government
- Mayor
- Fred Bilotto (United Blue Island)
- City council
- Aldermen 1st Ward Dexter Johnson 2nd Ward Luiz Montoya 3rd Ward Nancy Rita 4th Ward Bill Fahrenwald 5th Ward Gabriel McGee 6th Ward Candace Carr 7th Ward Josh Roll
- State house
- Robert Rita ( D )
- State senate
- Emil Jones, Jr. ( D )
- U s house
- Representatives 1st District Jonathan Jackson ( D ) 2nd District Robin Kelly ( D )
- Total
- 4.16 sq mi (10.77 km )
- Land
- 4.07 sq mi (10.54 km )
- Water
- 0.085 sq mi (0.22 km ) 2.16%
- Elevation
- 640 ft (195 m)
- Density
- 5,540.9/sq mi (2,139.34/km )
- Demonym
- Blue Islander
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( CST )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Blue Island
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Cook County
- Population
- 22558
- Area
- 10.767606
- Elevation
- 195
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Robbins
- Official website
- www.blueisland.org
- Image
- Blue Island Montage.jpg
- Households
- 7926
- Dialing code
- 708
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- Commons category
- Blue Island, Illinois
- topic's main category
- Category:Blue Island, Illinois
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Blue Island, Illinois
- inception
- 1836-00-00
- water as percent of area
- 2.0742
- per capita income
- 23061
- postal code
- 60406
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Encyclopedic overview
Blue Island is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States, 16 miles (26 km) south of Chicago's Loop. Blue Island is adjacent to the city of Chicago and shares its northern boundary with that city's Morgan Park neighborhood. The population was 22,558 at the 2020 United States census.
Blue Island was established in the 1830s as a way station for settlers traveling on the Vincennes Trace, and the settlement prospered because it was conveniently situated a day's journey outside of Chicago. In 1884, Alfred T. Andreas observed, "The location of Blue Island Village is a beautiful one. Nowhere about Chicago is there to be found a more pleasant and desirable resident locality."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Blue Island” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.