Thornton
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.
- Village with about 2,390 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 600 feet (180 metres)
- …is named after William F. Thornton
- Description: village in Cook County, Illinois, USA
- Postal code: 60476
- Also known as“Thornton IL”“Thornton, Illinois”“Village of Thornton”
Places of Interest
Discover Thornwood High School and Homewood Memorial Gardens.
Thornwood High School
School
Thornwood High School is a public high school located in South Holland, Illinois, United States.
Homewood Memorial Gardens
Homewood Memorial Gardens is a privately owned cemetery in unincorporated Cook County, Illinois.
Mount Glenwood Memory Gardens
Mount Glenwood Memory Gardens is a cemetery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include East Hazel Crest and South Holland.
East Hazel Crest
Village
East Hazel Crest is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States.
2 miles west of Thornton
South Holland
South Holland is a village and south suburb of Chicago…
2 miles north of Thornton
Thornton
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Latitude
41.57258° or 41° 34′ 21″ north
Longitude
-87.60953° or 87° 36′ 34″ west
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Open location code
86HJH9FR+25
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place = village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Thornton” goes by many names.
ثورنتونArabic
ThorntonBasque
ThorntonCatalan
ThorntonCebuano
桑頓Chinese
桑頓 (伊利諾伊州)Chinese
ThorntonDutch
ثورنتونEgyptian Arabic
ثؤرنتنGilaki
ثؤرنتن (ايلينؤی)Gilaki
ThorntonHaitian
Thornton, IlinwaHaitian
ThorntonItalian
ThorntonLadin
تورنتونMazanderani
تورنتون (ایلینوی)Mazanderani
ThorntonMin Nan Chinese
ThorntonNorwegian
Thornton (Illinois)Norwegian Bokmål
تورنتونPersian
تورنتون، ایلینویPersian
ThorntonPolish
ThorntonRomanian
ТорнтонRussian
ТорнтонSerbian
ThorntonSerbo-Croatian
Thornton, IllinoisSerbo-Croatian
تورنتون، ایلینویSouth Azerbaijani
ThorntonTurkish
ТорнтонUkrainian
تھورنٹن، الینوائےUrdu
ThorntonVietnamese
Thornton, IllinoisVietnamese
ThorntonVolapük
ThorntonWaray (Philippines)
Thornton, IllinoisWaray (Philippines)
ThorntonWelsh
Thornton, IllinoisWelsh
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Localities in the Area
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