Niles (Illinois)

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Niles
Leaning Tower in Niles
Leaning Tower in Niles
Location in Illinois
Niles (Illinois)
Niles
Niles
Basic data
Foundation : 1832
State : United States
State : Illinois
County : Cook County
Coordinates : 42 ° 2 ′  N , 87 ° 49 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 2 ′  N , 87 ° 49 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Inhabitants :
Metropolitan Area :
29,803 (status: 2010)
9,461,105 (status: 2010)
Population density : 1,967.2 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 15.15 km 2  (approx. 6 mi 2 )
Height : 194 m
Postal code : 60714
Area code : +1 847, 224
FIPS : 17-53000
GNIS ID : 414524
Website : www.vniles.com
Mayor : Andrew Przybylo
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Niles with neighboring parishes

Niles is a municipality (with the status " Village ") in Cook County in the US -amerikanischen State Illinois . In 2010 , Niles had 29,803 residents.

Niles is part of the Chicago metropolitan area .

geography

Niles is located in the northwest suburbs of Chicago on the northern arm of the Chicago River . The place is located at 42 ° 01'40 "north latitude and 87 ° 48'36" west longitude and extends over 15.15 km². Niles is equally divided between Niles Township and Maine Township .

Neighboring towns of Niles are Glenview (on the northern outskirts), Morton Grove (on the northeastern outskirts), Skokie (on the eastern outskirts), Lincolnwood (7 km east-southeast), Norridge (8.3 km south), Park Ridge (on the southwestern city limits ) and Des Plaines (7.6 km northwest).

Downtown Chicago is 15 miles southeast, Rockford is 125 miles west-northwest, Wisconsin's capital Madison is 209 km northwest, and Milwaukee is 80 miles north.

traffic

Interstate 94 , which is the fastest connection from Chicago to Milwaukee, runs not far from the eastern outskirts of Niles . US Highway 14 and Illinois State Routes 43 and 58 meet in Niles . All other roads are subordinate routes as well as inner-city connecting roads.

With the Milwaukee District / North Line , a line of METRA , a local transport system in the greater Chicago area comparable to a German S-Bahn, runs along the eastern border of Niles.

The O'Hare International Airport of Chicago is located 13.7 kilometers southeast of Niles.

Demographic data

According to the 2010 census , Niles had 29,803 people in 11,906 households. The population density was 1967.2 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.41 people lived in each of the 11,906 households.

The racial the population was composed of 76.3 percent white, 1.4 percent African American, 0.1 percent Native American, 16.7 percent Asian and 3.4 percent from other ethnic groups; 2.3 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 8.7 percent of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.

16.7 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 57.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 25.7 percent were 65 years or older. 52.8 percent of the population was female.

The average annual income for a household was 47,495  USD . The per capita income was $ 27,520. 7.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Town twinning

Niles has the following city ​​partnerships :

Individual evidence

  1. a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved February 19, 2013
  2. Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed on February 18, 2013
  3. Niles Sister Cities ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2011 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 19, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vniles.com

Web links

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