University Park
University Park is a village in Will County with a small portion in Cook County in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is a south suburb of Chicago. The village is one of the region's few planned communities; it was developed in the 1960s as Wood Hill, then Park Forest South, and finally University Park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 7,150 residents
- Description: village in Will County, Illinois, United States
- Also known as: “Park Forest South”, “University Park, IL”, “University Park, Illinois”, and “Village of University Park”
- Postal code: 60484
Places of Interest
Highlights include University Park station and Crete-Monee High School.
University Park station
Railway station
Photo: Zol87, CC BY-SA 4.0.
University Park is a station on Metra's Metra Electric District line located in University Park, Illinois. University Park is the southern terminus of the Metra Electric main line and is 31.5 miles away from the northern terminus at Millennium Station. University Park station is situated 2½ miles northwest of University Park.
Crete-Monee High School
School
Crete-Monee High School is a four-year public high school located in Crete, Illinois, a far south suburb of Chicago, in the United States. Known colloquially as Crete, the high school houses students representing the surrounding communities of Crete, Monee, University Park, and portions of Park Forest. Crete-Monee High School is situated 2 miles east of University Park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Crete and Park Forest.
Crete
Village
Crete is a village in Will County, Illinois, United States. It is a far south suburb of Chicago, 30 miles from the Loop and only 6 miles from the Indiana border. Crete is situated 2½ miles east of University Park.
Park Forest
Village
Park Forest is a village and south suburb of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States, with a small southern portion in Will County. The village was originally designed by Loebl Schlossman & Bennett as a planned community for veterans returning from World War II. Park Forest is situated 3 miles north of University Park.
Steger
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Steger is a village in Cook County and Will County, Illinois, United States. It is 35 miles south of Chicago and had a population of 9,584 at the 2020 census. Steger is situated 3 miles northeast of University Park.
University Park
- Categories: village of Illinois and locality
- Location: Monee Township, Will, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.44003° or 41° 26′ 24″ northLongitude
-87.68338° or 87° 41′ 0″ westPopulation
7,150Elevation
784 feet (239 metres)Named after
Governors State UniversityUnited Nations Location Code
US UPKOpen location code
86HJC8R8+2JOpenStreetMap ID
node 153651708OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
7535510Wikidata ID
Q2398096
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“University Park” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “يونيفرسيتي بارك”
- Basque: “University Park”
- Cebuano: “University Park”
- Chinese: “University Park”
- Chinese: “大學公園”
- Dutch: “University Park”
- Egyptian Arabic: “انيڤيرسيتى پارك”
- French: “University Park”
- German: “University Park”
- Gilaki: “یۊنيورسيتي پارک (ايلينؤی)”
- Gilaki: “یۊنيورسيتي پارک”
- Haitian: “University Park, Ilinwa”
- Haitian: “University Park”
- Italian: “University Park”
- Japanese: “ユニバーシティパーク”
- Korean: “유니버시티파크”
- Ladin: “University Park”
- Mazanderani: “یونیورسیتی پارک (ایلینوی)”
- Mazanderani: “یونیورسیتی پارک”
- Min Nan Chinese: “University Park”
- Persian: “یونیورسیتی پارک، ایلینوی”
- Persian: “یونیورسیتی پارک”
- Polish: “University Park”
- Portuguese: “University Park”
- Romanian: “University Park”
- Serbian: “Јуниверсити Парк”
- Serbo-Croatian: “University Park, Illinois”
- Serbo-Croatian: “University Park”
- South Azerbaijani: “یونیورسیتی پارک، ایلینوی”
- Spanish: “University Park”
- Swedish: “University Park, Illinois”
- Swedish: “University Park”
- Ukrainian: “Юніверсіті-Парк”
- Urdu: “یونیورسٹی پارک، الینوائے”
- Urdu: “یونیورسٹی پارک”
- Vietnamese: “University Park, Illinois”
- Vietnamese: “University Park”
- Volapük: “University Park”
- Waray (Philippines): “University Park, Illinois”
- Waray (Philippines): “University Park”
- Welsh: “University Park, Illinois”
- Welsh: “University Park”
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