Glenwood
Glenwood is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 8,662 at the 2020 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 8,660 residents
- Description: village in Cook County, Illinois, United States
- Also known as: “Glenwood, IL”, “Glenwood, Illinois”, and “Village of Glenwood”
- Postal code: 60425
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Glenwood Memory Gardens and Homewood Memorial Gardens.
Mount Glenwood Memory Gardens
Cemetery
Photo: Nick Number, CC BY 4.0.
Mount Glenwood Memory Gardens is a cemetery.
Homewood Memorial Gardens
Cemetery
Photo: Nick Number, CC BY 4.0.
Homewood Memorial Gardens is a privately owned cemetery in unincorporated Cook County, Illinois. Many other unrelated cemeteries share variations of this name. This site may have formerly been called Oak Lawn Cemetery. Homewood Memorial Gardens is situated 2 miles northwest of Glenwood.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Thornton and Ford Heights.
Thornton
Village
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Thornton is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, and a south suburb of Chicago. The population was 2,386 at the 2020 census. Thornton is home to the Thornton Quarry, one of the largest quarries in the world. Thornton is situated 2 miles north of Glenwood.
Ford Heights
Village
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Ford Heights is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,813 at the 2020 census. A suburb of Chicago, many of the area's first settlers were African American and since its incorporation in 1949, the village has remained predominantly Black. Ford Heights is situated 2½ miles south of Glenwood.
Chicago Heights
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Chicago Heights is a city of 29,000 people in the Chicagoland region of Illinois. Chicago Heights remains one of the most dangerous cities in Illinois, with rampant poverty and high levels of violent crime.
Glenwood
- Categories: village of Illinois and locality
- Location: Bloom Township, Cook, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.54249° or 41° 32′ 33″ northLongitude
-87.60228° or 87° 36′ 8″ westPopulation
8,660Elevation
620 feet (189 metres)United Nations Location Code
US OOGOpen location code
86HJG9RX+X3OpenStreetMap ID
node 153603127OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Glenwood” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غلنوود”
- Basque: “Glenwood”
- Catalan: “Glenwood”
- Cebuano: “Glenwood”
- Chinese: “Glenwood”
- Chinese: “格伦伍德（伊利诺州）”
- Chinese: “格倫伍德（伊利諾州）”
- Chinese: “格倫伍德”
- Dutch: “Glenwood”
- French: “Glenwood”
- German: “Glenwood”
- Gilaki: “گلنوۊد (ايلينؤی)”
- Gilaki: “گلنوۊد”
- Haitian: “Glenwood, Ilinwa”
- Haitian: “Glenwood”
- Hebrew: “גלנווד”
- Italian: “Glenwood”
- Japanese: “グレンウッド”
- Ladin: “Glenwood”
- Mazanderani: “گلنوود (ایلینوی)”
- Mazanderani: “گلنوود”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Glenwood”
- Newari: “ग्लेनवूड (इलियोनोई)”
- Newari: “ग्लेनवूड, इलिनोइ”
- Newari: “ग्लेनवूड, इलियोनोई”
- Persian: “گلنوود، ایلینوی”
- Persian: “گلنوود”
- Polish: “Glenwood”
- Portuguese: “Glenwood”
- Romanian: “Glenwood”
- Serbian: “Гленвуд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Glenwood, Illinois”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Glenwood”
- South Azerbaijani: “قلنوود، ایلینوی”
- Spanish: “Glenwood (Illinois)”
- Spanish: “Glenwood”
- Swedish: “Glenwood, Illinois”
- Swedish: “Glenwood”
- Turkish: “Glenwood, Illinois”
- Turkish: “Glenwood”
- Ukrainian: “Гленвуд”
- Urdu: “گلینووڈ، الینوائے”
- Urdu: “گلینووڈ”
- Vietnamese: “Glenwood, Illinois”
- Vietnamese: “Glenwood”
- Volapük: “Glenwood”
- Waray (Philippines): “Glenwood, Illinois”
- Waray (Philippines): “Glenwood”
- Welsh: “Glenwood, Illinois”
- Welsh: “Glenwood”
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