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Farmers market runs through September
Downtown green, Saturday mornings. The bread stand is back and the cider is worth the trip.
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Blue Island
Illinois · IL
About Blue Island
City in Illinois, United States1836Established
22,558Population
4.2 sq miArea
640 ftElevation
Blue Island is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States, 16 miles (26 km) south of Chicago's Loop. Blue Island is adjacent to the city of Chicago and shares its northern boundary with that city's Morgan Park neighborhood. The population was 22,558 at the 2020 United States census. Blue Island was established in the 1830s as a way station for settlers traveling on the Vincennes Trace, and the settlement prospered because it was conveniently situated a day's journey outside of Chicago. In 1884, Alfred T. Andreas observed, "The location of Blue Island Village is a beautiful one. Nowhere about Chicago is there to be found a more pleasant and desirable resident locality." Since its foundin…
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