West Chicago
West Chicago is a city in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. The population was 25,614 at the 2020 census. It was formerly named Junction and later Turner, after its founder, John Bice Turner, president of the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad in 1855.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 26,700 residents
- Description: city in DuPage County, Illinois, United States
- Also known as: “Junction”, “Turner”, “West Chicago, IL”, and “West Chicago, Illinois”
- Postal codes: 60185 and 60186
Places of Interest
Highlights include West Chicago station and Community High School.
West Chicago station
Railway station
Photo: Richie Diesterheft, CC BY 2.0.
West Chicago is a station on Metra's Union Pacific West Line, located in West Chicago, Illinois. The station is 29.7 miles away from Ogilvie Transportation Center, the eastern terminus of the West Line.
Community High School
School
Community High School, also known as West Chicago Community High School, WCCHS, or simply WE-GO, is a public four-year high school located in West Chicago, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Winfield.
Winfield
Town
Photo: Kingkevy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Winfield is an incorporated village located in Milton and Winfield Townships, DuPage County, Illinois, United States. The DuPage River headwaters are located directly to the north, and the river runs through the village. Winfield is situated 2½ miles southeast of West Chicago.
West Chicago
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Winfield Township, DuPage County, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.8848° or 41° 53′ 5″ northLongitude
-88.204° or 88° 12′ 14″ westPopulation
26,700Elevation
784 feet (239 metres)United Nations Location Code
US WCIOpen location code
86HHVQMW+WCOpenStreetMap ID
node 153681639OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“West Chicago” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ويست شيكاغو”
- Armenian: “Արևմտյան Չիկագո”
- Basque: “West Chicago”
- Bengali: “পশ্চিম শিকাগো”
- Cebuano: “West Chicago”
- Chechen: “Вест-Чикаго”
- Chinese: “West Chicago”
- Chinese: “西芝加哥 (伊利諾伊州)”
- Chinese: “西芝加哥”
- Croatian: “West Chicago”
- Czech: “West Chicago”
- Danish: “West Chicago”
- Dutch: “West Chicago”
- Esperanto: “Okcidenta Ĉikago”
- French: “West Chicago”
- German: “West Chicago”
- Gilaki: “وست شیکاگو (ايلينؤی)”
- Gilaki: “وست شیکاگو”
- Haitian: “West Chicago, Ilinwa”
- Haitian: “West Chicago”
- Hebrew: “שיקגו המערבית”
- Ido: “West Chicago, Illinois”
- Ido: “West Chicago”
- Irish: “West Chicago”
- Italian: “West Chicago”
- Japanese: “ウェストシカゴ”
- Ladin: “West Chicago”
- Mazanderani: “وست شیکاگو (ایلینوی)”
- Mazanderani: “وست شیکاگو”
- Min Nan Chinese: “West Chicago”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “West Chicago”
- Norwegian: “West Chicago”
- Persian: “وست شیکاگو، ایلینوی”
- Persian: “وست شیکاگو”
- Polish: “West Chicago”
- Portuguese: “West Chicago”
- Russian: “Уэст-Чикаго”
- Serbian: “Вест Чикаго”
- Serbo-Croatian: “West Chicago, Illinois”
- Serbo-Croatian: “West Chicago”
- Slovak: “West Chicago”
- Slovenian: “West Chicago”
- South Azerbaijani: “وست شیکاقو، ایلینوی”
- Spanish: “West Chicago (Illinois)”
- Spanish: “West Chicago”
- Swedish: “West Chicago, Illinois”
- Swedish: “West Chicago”
- Tatar: “Вест-Чикаго”
- Turkish: “West Chicago, Illinois”
- Turkish: “West Chicago”
- Ukrainian: “Вест-Чикаго”
- Urdu: “ویسٹ شکاگو، الینوائے”
- Urdu: “ویسٹ شکاگو”
- Uzbek: “West Chicago”
- Uzbek: “Wест Чиcаго”
- Vietnamese: “West Chicago, Illinois”
- Vietnamese: “West Chicago”
- Volapük: “West Chicago”
- Waray (Philippines): “West Chicago, Illinois”
- Waray (Philippines): “West Chicago”
- Welsh: “West Chicago, Illinois”
- Welsh: “West Chicago”
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