"Pamphlet For Public Information" published by Lyons Township Clerk Robert S.
"Lyons Township, Cook County, Illinois".
Lyons Township is served by two public high school districts: Lyons Township High School District 204, for students in the northwest half of the township, and Argo Community High School District 217, for students in the southeast half.
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander: 0.02%.
American Indian and Alaska Native: 0.3%.
First Congregational Church of Western Springsĭemographics Historical population.
Columbia Woods (Cook County Forest Preserves).
Buffalo Woods ( Cook County Forest Preserves).
The township contains these seven cemeteries: Archer Woods Memorial Park, Bethania, LaGrange, Lithuanian National, Resurrection, Saint Johns and Lyonsville.
York Township, DuPage County (northwest).
Downers Grove Township, DuPage County (west).
Stickney Township (east northeast and east southeast).
There is one unincorporated community in the township:
Willow Springs (all but the area south of 87th Street and the Des Plaines River).
Western Springs (all but the small portion north of 39th Street).
Riverside (the small portion south of 39th Street).
Lyons (all but the small portion north of 39th Street).
Hinsdale (the small portion in Cook County).
Hickory Hills (the small portion north of 87th Street).
Burr Ridge (the eastern half in Cook County).
Brookfield (the third south of Southview Avenue).
Bridgeview (the half northwest of 87th Street and Harlem).
Bedford Park (the half west of Harlem Avenue).
There are seventeen municipalities completely or partially within Lyons Township's thirty-seven square miles of territory: Lyons Township is bordered on the north by Proviso and Riverside Townships, on the east by Stickney Township and the Chicago communities of Garfield Ridge and Clearing, on the south by Palos Township, and on the west by Downers Grove Township in DuPage County. The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, designated a National Historic District in 2011, passes through the township from southwest to northeast.Īccording to the United States Census Bureau, Lyons Township covers an area of 36.95 square miles (95.7 km 2) of this, 36.38 square miles (94.2 km 2) (98.44 percent) is land and 0.57 square miles (1.5 km 2) (1.56 percent) is water. Worth Township's approximate borders are Harlem Avenue ( Illinois Route 43) on the east, the line of 39th Street (Southview Avenue, Brewster Avenue) on the north, the DuPage County boundary (County Line Road) on the west, and the line of 87th Street on the south, except west of Willow Springs, where it follows the Des Plaines River to the DuPage county line. Other township municipalities include Indian Head Park, Hodgkins and McCook, as well as major portions of Western Springs, Brookfield, Bridgeview, Burr Ridge and Willow Springs. The village of Lyons, almost all of which lies within the township, is often confused with it. As of the 2010 census, its population was 111,688, with its most populous municipalities including La Grange (pop. Lyons Township is one of 29 townships in Cook County, Illinois.