Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
Oak Park, Illinois
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
==Geography== Oak Park is located immediately west of the city of [[Chicago]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Historic District Boundaries |url=https://www.oak-park.us/village-services/planning/historic-preservation/historic-district-boundaries |website=Village of Oak Park |access-date=July 1, 2020 |language=en |date=June 12, 2013 |archive-date=June 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200630195048/https://www.oak-park.us/village-services/planning/historic-preservation/historic-district-boundaries |url-status=live }}</ref> The boundary between the two municipalities is Austin Boulevard on the east side of Oak Park and North Avenue/[[Illinois Route 64]] on the village's north side. Oak Park borders [[Cicero, Illinois|Cicero]] along its southern border, [[Roosevelt Road]]/[[Illinois Route 38]], from Austin to Lombard; and [[Berwyn, Illinois|Berwyn]] from Lombard to [[Harlem Avenue]]. Harlem/[[Illinois Route 43]] serves as its western border, where between Roosevelt and South Boulevard, it borders [[Forest Park, Illinois|Forest Park]] and between North Boulevard and North Avenue to the west it borders [[River Forest, Illinois|River Forest]]. The entire village of Oak Park lies on the shore of ancient [[Lake Chicago]], which covered most of the city of Chicago during the last Ice Age, and was the forerunner to today's [[Lake Michigan]]. Ridgeland Avenue in eastern Oak Park marks the shoreline of the lake, and was once an actual ridge. As with the geographical setup of the [[Chicago River]], which connects to the present day Lake Michigan just north of the city's Loop, the ancient Des Plaines river once emptied into glacial Lake Chicago, making prehistoric Oak Park a "Plains river Delta" system. One of North America's four [[continental divide]]s runs through Oak Park. This divide, a slight rise running north–south through the village, separates the [[Saint Lawrence River]] watershed from the [[Mississippi River]] watershed, and is marked by one plaque on Lake Street at Forest Avenue and another in the northwest corner of Taylor Park. According to the 2010 census, Oak Park has a total area of {{cvt|4.7|sqmi|sqkm|2}}, all land.<ref name="census-g001">{{cite web |url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/G001/1600000US1754885 |title=G001 – Geographic Identifiers – 2010 Census Summary File 1 |access-date=December 25, 2015 |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200213053523/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/G001/1600000US1754885 |archive-date=February 13, 2020 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
Oak Park, Illinois
(section)
Add topic