Melrose Park

Also known as Melrose Park, Illinois, Melrose Park, IL

village in Cook County, Illinois, United States of America

Key facts

Country: United States
State: Illinois
County: Cook
Township: Proviso , Leyden
Incorporated: September 11, 1882
Mayor: Ronald M. Serpico
Total: 4.35 sq mi (11.27 km )
Land: 4.35 sq mi (11.27 km )
Water: 0 sq mi (0.00 km )
Elevation: 630 ft (190 m)
Density: 5,696.0/sq mi (2,199.22/km )
Demonym: Melrose Parker
Time zone: UTC-6 ( CST )
Summer dst: UTC-5 ( CDT )
Zip code s: 60160, 60161, 60164
Area codes: 708/464 , 847/224
Fips code: 17-48242
Website: melrosepark .org

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Wikidata facts

Official name: Melrose Park
Country: United States
Located in: Cook County
Population: 24796
Area: 10.97576
Elevation: 192
Time zone: Central Time Zone
Official website: www.melrosepark.org
Image: Downtown Melrose Park.jpg
Households: 7861
Dialing code: 708

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postal code: 60161
Commons category: Melrose Park, Illinois
category of associated people: Category:People from Melrose Park, Illinois
water as percent of area: 0
per capita income: 21881

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Encyclopedic overview

Melrose Park is a village in Leyden and Proviso Townships, Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is a suburb of Chicago. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 24,796.

The suburb was the home of Kiddieland Amusement Park from 1929 until 2010 (it closed in September 2009 before it was demolished in 2010 and the sign of Kiddieland was relocated to the Melrose Park Public Library; a Costco warehouse store now stands in its place), the Shrine of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Stern Pinball, Inc., the Melrose Park Taste, and the now-defunct Maywood Park horse racing track.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Melrose Park” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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