Oak Forest
Oak Forest is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The city is out 24 miles south-southwest of downtown Chicago in Bremen Township. Per the 2020 census, the population was 27,478.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Dennisyerger84, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Dennisyerger84, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 27,500 residents
- Description: city in Cook County, Illinois, United States
- Also known as: “City of Oak Forest”, “Oak Forest, IL”, and “Oak Forest, Illinois”
- Postal code: 60452
Places of Interest
Highlights include Oak Forest station and Bremen High School.
Oak Forest station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Oak Forest is a train station located in Oak Forest, Illinois on Metra's Rock Island District line, which runs between Joliet, Illinois and LaSalle Street Station in downtown Chicago, Illinois.
Bremen High School
School
Bremen High School, BHS, or simply Bremen is a public four year high school located in Midlothian, Illinois. It is the first school built as part of Bremen Community High School District 228 which also includes Tinley Park High School, Hillcrest High School and Oak Forest High School.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Midlothian and Markham.
Midlothian
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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.
Markham
Town
Markham is a city and a south suburb of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 11,661 at the 2020 census. Markham is situated 2½ miles east of Oak Forest.
Country Club Hills
Town
Country Club Hills is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is a suburb south of Chicago. The population was 16,775 at the 2020 census. Country Club Hills is situated 2½ miles southeast of Oak Forest.
Oak Forest
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Bremen Township, Cook, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.6028° or 41° 36′ 10″ northLongitude
-87.7439° or 87° 44′ 38″ westPopulation
27,500Elevation
673 feet (205 metres)United Nations Location Code
US OFROpen location code
86HJJ734+4COpenStreetMap ID
node 153760320OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Oak Forest” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أوك فورست (إلينوي)”
- Arabic: “أوك فورست”
- Basque: “Oak Forest”
- Cebuano: “Oak Forest”
- Chechen: “Оук-Форест”
- Chinese: “Oak Forest”
- Chinese: “奥克福里斯特”
- Chinese: “橡樹森林 (伊利諾伊州)”
- Chinese: “橡樹森林”
- Croatian: “Oak Forest”
- Czech: “Oak Forest”
- Danish: “Oak Forest”
- Dutch: “Oak Forest”
- French: “Oak Forest”
- German: “Oak Forest”
- Gilaki: “اؤک فؤرست (ايلينؤی)”
- Gilaki: “اؤک فؤرست”
- Haitian: “Oak Forest, Ilinwa”
- Haitian: “Oak Forest”
- Hungarian: “Oak Forest”
- Ido: “Oak Forest, Illinois”
- Ido: “Oak Forest”
- Irish: “Oak Forest”
- Italian: “Oak Forest”
- Japanese: “オーク・フォレスト”
- Ladin: “Oak Forest”
- Mazanderani: “اوکفارست (ایلینوی)”
- Mazanderani: “اوکفارست”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Oak Forest”
- Newari: “ओक फरेस्ट (इलियोनोई)”
- Newari: “ओक फरेस्ट, इलिनोइ”
- Newari: “ओक फरेस्ट, इलियोनोई”
- Newari: “ओक फरेस्ट”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Oak Forest”
- Norwegian: “Oak Forest”
- Persian: “اوکفارست، ایلینوی”
- Persian: “اوکفارست”
- Polish: “Oak Forest”
- Portuguese: “Oak Forest”
- Romanian: “Oak Forest”
- Russian: “Oak Forest, Illinois, United States”
- Russian: “Oak Forest”
- Serbian: “Оук Форест”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Oak Forest, Illinois”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Oak Forest”
- Slovak: “Oak Forest”
- South Azerbaijani: “اوکفارست، ایلینوی”
- Spanish: “Oak Forest (Illinois)”
- Spanish: “Oak Forest”
- Swahili: “Oak Forest, Illinois”
- Swahili: “Oak Forest”
- Swedish: “Oak Forest, Illinois”
- Swedish: “Oak Forest”
- Tatar: “Оук-Форест”
- Turkish: “Oak Forest, Illinois”
- Turkish: “Oak Forest”
- Ukrainian: “Оук-Форест”
- Urdu: “اوک فاریسٹ، الینوائے”
- Urdu: “اوک فاریسٹ”
- Uzbek: “Oak Forest”
- Uzbek: “Оак Форест”
- Vietnamese: “Oak Forest, Illinois”
- Vietnamese: “Oak Forest”
- Volapük: “Oak Forest”
- Waray (Philippines): “Oak Forest, Illinois”
- Waray (Philippines): “Oak Forest”
- Welsh: “Oak Forest, Illinois”
- Welsh: “Oak Forest”
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