Wheeling (Illinois)

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Wheeling
Wheeling (Illinois)
Wheeling
Wheeling
Location in Illinois
Basic data
Foundation : 1894
State : United States
State : Illinois
Counties : Cook County
Lake County
Coordinates : 42 ° 8 ′  N , 87 ° 56 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 8 ′  N , 87 ° 56 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Inhabitants :
-  Metropolitan Area :		 37,648 (status: 2010)
9,461,105 (status: 2010)
Population density : 1,671 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 22.53 km 2  (approx. 9 mi 2 )
Height : 198 m
Postcodes : 60089, 60090
Area code : +1 847, 224
FIPS : 17-81087
GNIS ID : 421000
Website : vi.wheeling.il.us
Mayor : Judy Abruscato (President)
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Wheeling with neighboring communities

Wheeling is a municipality (with the status " Village ") in Cook County and to a lesser extent in Lake County in the northeast of the US -amerikanischen state of Illinois . In 2010 , Wheeling had 37,648 residents.

Wheeling is part of the Chicago metropolitan area .

geography

Wheeling is located in the northeastern suburbs of Chicago on the western bank of the Des Plaines River , one of the two headwaters of the Illinois River, which flows into the Mississippi . The place is located at 42 ° 07'53 "north latitude and 87 ° 55'47" west longitude and extends over 22.53 km². Wheeling is predominantly in the Wheeling Township of Cook County and on the northern outskirts to a small extent in the Vernon Township of Lake County.

Neighboring places to Wheeling are Riverwoods (6.7 km northeast), Northbrook (on the eastern city limits), Glenview (17 km southeast), Prospect Heights (on the southern city limits), Arlington Heights (on the southwestern city limits), Palatine (12 , 4 km west-southwest) and Buffalo Grove (on the northwestern city limits).

Downtown Chicago is 28 miles southeast, Rockford is 117 miles west, Wisconsin's capital Madison is 192 km northwest, and Milwaukee is 69 miles north.

traffic

Along the western outskirts of Wheeling runs Interstate 294 , which meets Interstate 94 not far from the northeastern city limits and forms the fastest connection from Chicago to Milwaukee. US Highway 45 and Illinois State Routes 21 and 68 meet in the urban area of ​​Wheeling . All other roads are subordinate routes as well as inner-city connecting roads.

With the North Central Service , a METRA line , a local transport system in the greater Chicago area comparable to a German S-Bahn, runs through the center of Wheeling.

In the southeast of the city is the Chicago Executive Airport , which is owned equally by the municipalities of Prospect Heights and Wheeling and is one of the largest airports in Illinois. The larger O'Hare International Airport in Chicago is 16 miles south of Wheeling.

Demographic data

According to the 2010 census , Wheeling had 37,648 people in 14,461 households. The population density was 1671 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.57 people lived in 14,461 households.

The racial the population was composed of 67.0 percent white, 2.4 percent African American, 0.8 percent Native American, 12.9 percent Asian and 14.4 percent from other ethnic groups; 2.5 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 31.2 percent of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.

22.0 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 65.8 percent were between 18 and 64 and 12.2 percent were 65 years or older. 50.8 percent of the population was female.

The average annual income for a household was 59,026  USD . The per capita income was $ 27,502. 10.5 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Sons and daughters of the church

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved February 17, 2013
  2. ↑ Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed on February 17, 2013
  3. ↑ Chicago Executive Airport. Retrieved February 17, 2013

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