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Calumet Township

Blue Island

Blue Island is a city in , United States, 16 miles south of . Blue Island is adjacent to the city of and shares its northern boundary with that city's neighborhood.
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  • Type: Town with 22,600 residents
  • Description: city in Cook County, Illinois, United States
  • Also known as: “Blue Island, IL”, “Blue Island, Illinois”, “City of Blue Island”, and “Portland”
  • Postal code: 60406
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Burr Oak station and Blue Island station.

Railway station
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Burr Oak is a commuter rail station along the Blue Island Branch of the Metra Electric line in Blue Island, Illinois. The station is located on Burr Oak Avenue near Lincoln Street, and is 18.4 miles away from the northern terminus at .

Railway station
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Blue Island/Vermont Street is a 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 .

Railway station
Photo: Lucius Kwok, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Blue Island/Vermont Street is a 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 .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Calumet Park and Robbins.

Village
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is a village in , United States. The population was 7,025 at the 2020 census. It is a suburb of .

Village
is a village and southwest suburb of in , United States. The population was 4,629 at the 2020 census. It is the second oldest African American incorporated town in the north following , and was home to the country's first black-owned airport, .

Village
is a village in , United States. is the German language name for the western Polish city of . The population of the village was 5,632 at the 2020 census.

Blue Island

Latitude
41.6573° or 41° 39′ 26″ north
Longitude
-87.6799° or 87° 40′ 48″ west
Population
22,600
Elevation
640 feet (195 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US BCU
Open location code
86HJM84C+W3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 8416703229
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4885186
Wiki­data ID
Q577829
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Blue Island” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بلو أيلاند”
  • Basque: “Blue Island”
  • Catalan: “Blue Island”
  • Cebuano: “Blue Island”
  • Chechen: “Блу-Айленд”
  • Chinese: “Blue Island”
  • Chinese: “布卢艾兰”
  • Chinese: “藍島”
  • Croatian: “Blue Island”
  • Czech: “Blue Island”
  • Danish: “Blue Island”
  • Dutch: “Blue Island”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بلو ايلاند”
  • French: “Blue Island”
  • German: “Blue Island”
  • Gilaki: “بلۊ آیلند (ايلينؤی)”
  • Gilaki: “بلۊ آیلند”
  • Greek: “Μπλου Άιλαντ”
  • Haitian: “Blue Island, Ilinwa”
  • Haitian: “Blue Island”
  • Hebrew: “בלו איילנד”
  • Hungarian: “Blue Island”
  • Irish: “Blue Island”
  • Italian: “Blue Island”
  • Japanese: “ブルーアイランド (イリノイ州)”
  • Japanese: “ブルーアイランド”
  • Korean: “블루 아일랜드”
  • Korean: “블루아일랜드”
  • Ladin: “Blue Island”
  • Luxembourgish: “Blue Island”
  • Mazanderani: “بلو آیلند (ایلینوی)”
  • Mazanderani: “بلو آیلند”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Blue Island”
  • Newari: “ब्लु आइल्यान्ड (इलियोनोई)”
  • Newari: “ब्लु आइल्यान्ड, इलिनोइ”
  • Newari: “ब्लु आइल्यान्ड, इलियोनोई”
  • Newari: “ब्लु आइल्यान्ड”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Blue Island”
  • Norwegian: “Blue Island”
  • Persian: “بلو آیلند، ایلینوی”
  • Persian: “بلو آیلند”
  • Polish: “Blue Island”
  • Portuguese: “Blue Island”
  • Romanian: “Blue Island”
  • Russian: “Блу-Айленд”
  • Serbian: “Блу Ајланд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Blue Island, Illinois”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Blue Island”
  • Slovak: “Blue Island”
  • Slovenian: “Blue Island”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بلو آیلند، ایلینوی”
  • Spanish: “Blue Island (Illinois)”
  • Spanish: “Blue Island”
  • Swahili: “Blue Island, Illinois”
  • Swahili: “Blue Island”
  • Swedish: “Blue Island”
  • Tatar: “Блу-Айленд”
  • Turkish: “Blue Island, Illinois”
  • Turkish: “Blue Island”
  • Ukrainian: “Блу-Айленд”
  • Urdu: “بلو آئی لینڈ، الینوائے”
  • Urdu: “بلو آئی لینڈ”
  • Uzbek: “Blue Island”
  • Uzbek: “Блуе Исланд”
  • Vietnamese: “Blue Island, Illinois”
  • Vietnamese: “Blue Island”
  • Volapük: “Blue Island”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Blue Island, Illinois”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Blue Island”
  • Welsh: “Blue Island, Illinois”
  • Welsh: “Blue Island”

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