Mokena
Mokena is a village in Will County, Illinois, United States. It is a southwest suburb of Chicago. The population was 19,887 at the 2020 census. The Census Bureau's 2019 estimate found that the population had increased to 20,159.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 19,900 residents
- Description: village in Will County, Illinois, United States of America
- Also known as: “Mokena, IL” and “Mokena, Illinois”
- Postal code: 60448
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mokena station and Lincoln-Way East High School.
Mokena station
Railway station
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Mokena is one of two commuter rail stations along Metra's Rock Island District line that are located in Mokena, Illinois. The station is located on Front Street and Mokena Street east of Wolf Road, and is 29.6 miles away from LaSalle Street Station, the northern terminus of the line.
Lincoln-Way East High School
School
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Lincoln-Way East High School is a four-year public high school about three miles south of Interstate 80 near the intersection of Colorado Avenue, U.S. Route 45, and U.S. Route 30 in Frankfort, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. Lincoln-Way East High School is situated 2 miles southeast of Mokena.
Lincoln-Way Central High School
School
Lincoln-Way Central High School, LWC, or Central is a public four-year high school about 3.5 miles south of Interstate 80 near the intersection of Schoolhouse Road and Lincoln Highway in New Lenox, Illinois, a southwest suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. Lincoln-Way Central High School is situated 2 miles west of Mokena.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Frankfort and New Lenox.
Frankfort
Town
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Frankfort is a village in Will County and Cook County in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is a suburb of Chicago, about 28 miles southwest of the city. As of the 2020 census, the population was 20,296. Frankfort is situated 3 miles southeast of Mokena.
New Lenox
Town
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The South Suburbs make up a region of Chicagoland, in Illinois. The region is generally defined as the area south of I-55 and the Chicago Skyway. Many of the communities immediately near Chicago continue to have an urban character while many of the southernmost communities are suburban and exurban. New Lenox is situated 4 miles west of Mokena.
Orland Hills
Village
Orland Hills is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 6,893, and as of 2022, the total number of households was 2,330. Orland Hills is situated 4½ miles northeast of Mokena.
Mokena
- Categories: village of Illinois and locality
- Location: Frankfort Township, Will, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.52614° or 41° 31′ 34″ northLongitude
-87.88922° or 87° 53′ 21″ westPopulation
19,900Elevation
705 feet (215 metres)United Nations Location Code
US IMKOpen location code
86HJG4G6+F8OpenStreetMap ID
node 153513764OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Mokena” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “موكينا”
- Basque: “Mokena”
- Bulgarian: “Мокена”
- Catalan: “Mokena”
- Cebuano: “Mokena”
- Chinese: “Mokena”
- Chinese: “莫凱納 (伊利諾伊州)”
- Chinese: “莫凱納”
- Dutch: “Mokena”
- French: “Mokena”
- German: “Mokena”
- Gilaki: “موکینا (ايلينؤی)”
- Gilaki: “موکینا”
- Haitian: “Mokena, Ilinwa”
- Haitian: “Mokena”
- Italian: “Mokena”
- Japanese: “モケナ”
- Ladin: “Mokena”
- Mazanderani: “موکینا (ایلینوی)”
- Mazanderani: “موکینا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Mokena”
- Newari: “मोकेना (इलियोनोई)”
- Newari: “मोकेना, इलिनोइ”
- Newari: “मोकेना, इलियोनोई”
- Polish: “Mokena”
- Portuguese: “Mokena”
- Serbian: “Мокена”
- Serbian: “Мокина”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mokena, Illinois”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mokena”
- Spanish: “Mokena (Illinois)”
- Spanish: “Mokena”
- Swedish: “Mokena”
- Turkish: “Mokena, Illinois”
- Turkish: “Mokena”
- Ukrainian: “Мокіна”
- Vietnamese: “Mokena, Illinois”
- Vietnamese: “Mokena”
- Volapük: “Mokena”
- Waray (Philippines): “Mokena, Illinois”
- Waray (Philippines): “Mokena”
- Welsh: “Mokena, Illinois”
- Welsh: “Mokena”
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