Township of Thornton
Thornton Township is one of 29 townships in the Cook County of the U.S. state of Illinois. As of the 2020 census, its population was 157,865. Incorporated in 1850, it is located immediately south of the city of Chicago.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality with 158,000 residents
- Description: township in Cook County, Illinois, United States
- Also known as: “Thornton Station Township”, “Thornton Township”, “Thornton Township, Cook County, Illinois”, and “Thornton Township, Illinois”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Harvey station and Shabbona Trail.
Harvey station
Railway station
Photo: Zol87, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Harvey is one of two Metra Electric commuter rail stations along the line's Main Branch in Harvey, Illinois. The station is located at Park Avenue and 154th Street, and is 20.0 miles away from the northern terminus at Millennium Station. Harvey station is situated 2 miles west of Township of Thornton.
Shabbona Trail
Nature reserve
The Chief Shabbona Trail is a hiking, bicycling and canoeing trail, located between Joliet and Morris, Illinois. The Shabbona Trail is a part of the 61-mile long National Park Service Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor. Shabbona Trail is situated 2 miles east of Township of Thornton.
Seton Academy
School
Seton Academy was a Catholic coeducational college-preparatory high school in South Holland, Illinois.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Harvey and Lansing.
Harvey
Harvey is a city of about 25,000 people in the South Suburbs of the Chicagoland region of Illinois.The city suffers from high levels of unemployment, poverty, and crime.
Lansing
Photo: Dennisyerger84, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lansing is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Lansing is a south suburb of Chicago. The population was 29,076 at the 2020 census.
South Holland
Town
Photo: Dennisyerger84, CC BY-SA 3.0.
South Holland is a village and south suburb of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States, within Thornton Township. The population was 21,465 at the 2020 census. It is named after the Dutch province of South Holland.
Township of Thornton
- Category: township of Illinois
- Location: Cook, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Vietnamese—“Township of Thornton” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Thornton udalerria, Cook konderria”
- Basque: “Thornton udalerria”
- Chinese: “桑頓鎮區 (伊利諾伊州庫克縣)”
- Chinese: “桑頓鎮區”
- French: “Thornton Township”
- German: “Thornton Township”
- Persian: “ناحیه تورنتون، شهرستان کوک، ایلینوی”
- Spanish: “municipio de Thornton (condado de Cook, Illinois)”
- Spanish: “municipio de Thornton”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Thornton”
- Turkish: “Thornton Township”
- Urdu: “تھورنٹن ٹاؤن شپ، کک کاؤنٹی، الینوائے”
- Urdu: “تھورنٹن ٹاؤن شپ”
- Vietnamese: “Xã Thornton, Quận Cook, Illinois”
- Vietnamese: “Xã Thornton”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Thornton Junction and Greenwood.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include South Holland Public Library and Van Oostenbrugge Park.
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