Lyons Township, Cook County, Illinois

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official_name = Lyons Township
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subdivision_name2 = Cook
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leader_name = Pat Rogers
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area_total_km2 = 95.82
area_total_sq_mi = 37.0
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Lyons Township is located in Cook County, Illinois. The boundaries of Lyons Township are East: Harlem Avenue, West: the Cook-DuPage County (County Line Road), south: the line of 87th Street, except west of Willow Springs, where it follows the Des Plaines river to the Cook-DuPage County Line, North: the line of 39th Street (Southview Avenue, Brewster Avenue). The population was 109,264 at the 2000 census and there are seventeen municipalities in or partially within Lyons Township's thirty-eight and a quarter square miles of territory:

*Bedford Park
*Bridgeview
*Brookfield
*Burr ridge
*Countryside
*Hickory Hills
*Hinsdale
*Hodgkins
*Indian Head Park
*Justice
*La Grange
*Lyons
*McCook
*Riverside
*Summit
*Western Springs
*Willow Springs

There are three communities in the unincorporated areas of the Township:

*La Grange Highlands
*Pleasantdale
*Ridgewood

= Races In Lyons Township =

* White Non-Hispanic: 80.3%
* Black: 4.8%
* American Indian and Alaska Native: 0.1%
* Asian: 1.6%
* Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander: 0.0%
* Hispanic or Latino: 11.6%
* Two or more races: 1.5%
* Some other race: 0.1%

= Lyons Township Elected Officials =

* Patrick T. Rogers - Supervisor
* Mary Jo Noonan - Clerk
* Steven M. Landek - Highway Commissioner
* Barbara M. Weyrick - Assessor
* Erick R. Peck - Collector
* Russell Hartigan - Trustee
* Mary Van Allen - Trustee
* Thomas Wm. Garrette Jr. - Trustee
* Timonthy M. Sprague - Trustee

= References =

* "Pamphlet For Public Information" published by Lyons Township Clerk Robert S. Berliner, 1968.

External links

* [http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/DatasetMainPageServlet?_lang=en&_ US Census]
* [http://www.city-data.com/township/Lyons-Cook-IL.html City-data.com]
* [http://www.co.cook.il.us/ Cook County Official Site]
* [http://www.toi.org/LYONSTOWNSHIP/Information.asp/ Lyons Township Information Center]