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About Berkeley
Village in Illinois, United StatesBerkeley (pronounced BURK-lee) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Incorporated in 1924, the population at the 2020 census was 5,338. The town has a commuter railroad station on Metra's Union Pacific West Line with service to downtown Chicago. Berkeley is situated fourteen miles west of the Chicago Loop in Cook County. Berkeley is on the western edge of Cook County. Berkeley has instant access to the metropolitan area, with Interstates 290 and 294 comprising its western and part of its southern boundaries, and the Union Pacific Railroad (originally the Chicago & North Western) and the large Proviso classification yard to the north. However, the transit arteries that link B…
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How Berkeley ranks
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Housing in Berkeley
The typical Berkeley home is worth about $309,000, up 5% in a year, close to the Illinois typical home.
A seller's market
Safety in Berkeley
Safety Grade B+
Berkeley reports less crime per resident than 70% of the U.S. towns and cities we grade.
Health in Berkeley
Compared with Illinois
of 32 measures CDC estimates. The other 19 are too close to call.
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