Hegewisch
Hegewisch is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago, Illinois, located on the city's far south side. It is bordered by the neighborhoods of Riverdale and South Deering to the west, the East Side to the north, the village of Burnham to the south and the city of Hammond, Indiana to the east.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 10,000 residents
- Description: human settlement in Cook County, Illinois, United States of America
- Also known as: “Hegewisch, Chicago” and “Hegewisch, IL”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hegewisch station and William W. Powers State Recreation Area.
Hegewisch station
Railway station
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Hegewisch station is a commuter rail station in the city of Chicago, Illinois in the Hegewisch neighborhood, that serves the South Shore Line north to Millennium Station and east to the cities of Hammond, East Chicago, Gary, Michigan City, and South Bend, Indiana.
William W. Powers State Recreation Area
Park
William W. Powers State Recreation Area is an Illinois state park administered by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources on 580 acres in the Hegewisch community area of the City of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States.
Chicago Assembly Plant
Industrial building
Chicago Assembly Plant is Ford Motor Company's oldest continuously operated automobile manufacturing plant. It is located at E. 130th Street and Torrence Avenue in the Hegewisch neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, US.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Burnham and Far Southeast Side.
Burnham
Village
Burnham is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 4,046 at the 2020 census. Burnham has a Chicago ZIP code and was named for Telford Burnham, who drew its plat.
Far Southeast Side
The Far Southeast Side of Chicago is a huge section of Chicago with only one large tourist draw: the Pullman Historic District. Most travelers will literally just pass over this district on the Chicago Skyway, but look closely and something may catch your eye.
North Hammond
Neighborhood
North Hammond is a neighborhood in western Hammond, Indiana, north of the Grand Calumet River and south of Wolf Lake. It is bounded to the south by Central Hammond, to the west by the Chicago neighborhood of Hegewisch, to the north by Robertsdale, and to the east by East Chicago. North Hammond is situated 2½ miles southeast of Hegewisch.
Hegewisch
- Categories: community area in Chicago, neighborhood, and locality
- Location: Chicago, Cook, Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.65365° or 41° 39′ 13″ northLongitude
-87.54699° or 87° 32′ 49″ westPopulation
10,000Elevation
584 feet (178 metres)Named after
Adolph HegewischOpen location code
86HJMF33+F6OpenStreetMap ID
node 153518116OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From French to Turkish—“Hegewisch” goes by many names.
- French: “Hegewisch”
- Persian: “هگویش، شیکاگو”
- Persian: “هگیویچ”
- Turkish: “Hegewisch”
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