Lansing, Illinois
| Lansing | |
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 Downtown Lansing |
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| Location in Cook County | |
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| Basic data | |
| Foundation : | 1893 |
| State : | United States |
| State : | Illinois |
| County : | Cook County |
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 34 ′ N , 87 ° 32 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) |
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Inhabitants : - Metropolitan Area : |
28,331 (as of 2010) 9,461,105 (as of 2010) |
| Population density : | 1,598.8 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 17.72 km 2 (approximately 7 mi 2 ) |
| Height : | 192 m |
| Postal code : | 60438 |
| Area code : | +1 706 |
| FIPS : | 17-42028 |
| GNIS ID : | 411819 |
| Website : | www.villageoflansing.com |
| Mayor : | Norm Abbott |
 Lansing with neighboring communities |
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Lansing is a municipality (with the status " Village ") in Cook County in the US -amerikanischen State Illinois . In 2010 Lansing had 28,331 residents.
Lansing is part of the Chicago metropolitan area .
geography
Lansing is located in the southern suburbs of Chicago on the Indiana border on the Little Calumet River , which flows into Lake Michigan via the Calumet River . The place is 41 ° 33'53 "north latitude and 87 ° 32'20" west longitude and extends over 17.72 km². Lansing is mainly in Thornton Township and to a lesser extent in Bloom Township .
Neighboring places of Lansing are Calumet City (on the northern city limits), Hammond (on the northeastern city limits), Munster (from the eastern city limits), Lynwood (on the southern city limits), Glenwood (7.7 km southwest), Thornton (6th district) , 2 km west) and South Holland (on the north-western city limits).
Downtown Chicago is 27 miles north.
traffic
In a west-east direction, Interstate 94 runs through Lansing. US Highway 6 and Illinois State Route 83 cross in the center of town . All other roads are subordinate routes as well as inner-city connecting roads.
In a northwest-southeast direction runs a railway line of the Canadian National Railway through the center of Lansing.
Lansing Municipal Airport is located in the south of Lansing . Chicago's larger O'Hare International Airport is 69.7 km northwest of Lansing.
history
The first white settlers in the area of today's Lansing were August Hildebrandt and his family. Three years later, Henry, George and John Lansing settled. By 1850, the settlement was connected to the Pennsylvania Railroad . In 1893 the settlement was raised to an independent municipality. In 1911 the first telephone line was moved to Lansing. Lansin was connected to the electricity network in 1912. The first asphalt road was laid in the town in 1915. In 1924 the Lansing Municipal Airport was opened.
Demographic data
According to the 2010 census , Lansing had 28,331 people in 10,957 households. The population density was 1598.8 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.58 people lived in each of the 10,957 households.
The racial the population was composed of 58.9 percent white, 31.6 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 0.9 percent Asian and 6.1 percent from other ethnic groups; 2.2 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 14.5 percent of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.
25.0 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 61.4 percent were between 18 and 64 and 13.6 percent were 65 years or older. 52.8 percent of the population was female.
The average annual income for a household was 51,083 USD . The per capita income was $ 25,445. 10.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Known residents
- Curtis Granderson (* 1981) - baseball player - attended school in Lansing
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved February 21, 2013
- ↑ Distance information from Google Maps. Accessed on February 21, 2013
- ↑ Lansing, IL - History ( Memento of the original from March 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 21, 2013
