Forest View
Forest View is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 792. It is primarily an industrial corridor adjacent to the Chicago neighborhood of Garfield Ridge, which is on the village's southern border.- Type: Village with 792 residents
- Description: village in Cook County, Illinois, United States
- Also known as: “Forest View, IL”, “Forest View, Illinois”, and “Village of Forest View”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chicago Portage National Historic Site and Summit station.
Chicago Portage National Historic Site
Nature reserve
Photo: Zol87, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Chicago Portage National Historic Site is a National Historic Site commemorating the importance of the Chicago Portage in Lyons, Cook County, Illinois, United States.
Summit station
Railway station
Summit is an Amtrak and Metra train station in Summit, Illinois. It is served by Amtrak Illinois' Lincoln Service, which operates daily, and Metra's Heritage Corridor commuter line, which operates only during morning and evening rush hours in peak direction.
Harlem Avenue station
Railway station
Photo: Gfoley4, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Harlem Avenue is one of three stations on Metra's BNSF Line in Berwyn, Illinois. The station is 10 miles from Union Station, the east end of the line. In Metra's zone-based fare system, Harlem Avenue is in zone 2. Harlem Avenue station is situated 1½ miles north of Forest View.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stickney and Garfield Ridge.
Stickney
Village
Stickney is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 7,110. The village is named for Alpheus Beede Stickney, a railroad executive who played a central role in establishing the Clearing Industrial District.
Garfield Ridge
Suburb
Garfield Ridge is the 56th of Chicago's 77 community areas. Located 10 miles from the Loop, it is on the city's far southwest side. As of 2017, the area had 36,396 inhabitants.
Lyons
Town
Photo: Teemu08, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lyons is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 10,817. The Chicago Portage National Historic Site is located in Lyons.
Forest View
- Categories: village of Illinois and locality
- Location: Township of Stickney, Cook, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.80866° or 41° 48′ 31″ northLongitude
-87.79711° or 87° 47′ 50″ westPopulation
792Elevation
594 feet (181 metres)United Nations Location Code
US FTWOpen location code
86HJR653+F5OpenStreetMap ID
node 4262116992OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Forest View” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فورست فيو”
- Basque: “Forest View”
- Cebuano: “Forest View”
- Chinese: “Forest View”
- Chinese: “福雷斯特維尤 (伊利諾伊州)”
- Chinese: “福雷斯特維尤”
- Dutch: “Forest View”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فورست فيو”
- French: “Forest View”
- German: “Forest View”
- Gilaki: “فؤرست ويۊ (ايلينؤی)”
- Gilaki: “فؤرست ويۊ”
- Haitian: “Forest View, Ilinwa”
- Haitian: “Forest View”
- Hausa: “Forest View Il”
- Italian: “Forest View”
- Ladin: “Forest View”
- Mazanderani: “فورست ویو (ایلینوی)”
- Mazanderani: “فورست ویو”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Forest View”
- Newari: “फरेस्ट भ्यू, इलिनोइ”
- Newari: “फरेस्ट भ्यू”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Forest View (Illinois)”
- Norwegian: “Forest View”
- Persian: “فورست ویو، ایلینوی”
- Persian: “فورست ویو”
- Polish: “Forest View”
- Portuguese: “Forest View”
- Romanian: “Forest View”
- Serbian: “Форест Вју”
- Serbian: “Форист Вју”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Forest View, Illinois”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Forest View”
- South Azerbaijani: “فورست ویو، ایلینوی”
- Spanish: “Forest View”
- Turkish: “Forest View”
- Ukrainian: “Форест-В’ю”
- Vietnamese: “Forest View, Illinois”
- Vietnamese: “Forest View”
- Volapük: “Forest View”
- Waray (Philippines): “Forest View, Illinois”
- Waray (Philippines): “Forest View”
- Welsh: “Forest View, Illinois”
- Welsh: “Forest View”
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