Village of Posen

Posen is a village and south suburb of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Posen is the German language name for the western Polish city of Poznań. The population of the village was 5,632 at the 2020 census.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Midlothian station and Blue Island/Vermont Street station.

Midlothian station

Railway station

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Midlothian is a station on Metra's Rock Island District line located in Midlothian, Illinois. The station is located at 3750 West 147th Street Midlothian is 18.4 miles away from LaSalle Street Station, the northern terminus of the Rock Island District line.

Blue Island/Vermont Street station

Railway station

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Blue Island/Vermont Street is a Metra station in Blue Island, Illinois, servicing the Rock Island District and Metra Electric District Lines. On the Rock Island, it is 16.4 miles from LaSalle Street Station.

Gensburg-Markham Prairie

Nature reserve

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The Gensburg-Markham Prairie, also known as Markham Prairie, is a 105.6-acre high-quality tallgrass prairie located in Markham in the Chicago metropolitan area.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Blue Island and Midlothian.

Blue Island

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Blue Island is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States, 16 miles south of Chicago's Loop. Blue Island is adjacent to the city of Chicago and shares its northern boundary with that city's Morgan Park neighborhood.

Midlothian

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Midlothian is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is a southwestern suburb of Chicago. As of the 2020 census the population was 14,325.

Harvey

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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.

Village of Posen

Type: Locality with 5,990 residents
Location: Cook, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.6291° or 41° 37′ 45″ north

Longitude

-87.6858° or 87° 41′ 9″ west

Population

5,990

Elevation

604 feet (184 metres)

Open location code

86HJJ8H7+JM

GeoNames ID

7317542

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