Forest Park
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Outdoors in Forest Park
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1914
Forest Park Illinois town hall 1914, 1914
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About Forest Park
Village in Illinois, United StatesForest Park (formerly Harlem) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, and a suburb of Chicago. The population was 14,339 at the 2020 census. The Forest Park terminal on the CTA Blue Line is the line's western terminus, located on the Eisenhower Expressway at Des Plaines Avenue. This makes it one of just two municipalities served by the Chicago "L" train network that does not directly border Chicago (the other being Wilmette).
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Housing in Forest Park
The typical Forest Park home is worth about $291,000, up 6.8% in a year, close to the Illinois typical home.
A seller's market
Safety in Forest Park
Safety Grade D
Forest Park reports more crime per resident than most U.S. towns we grade: about 87% report less.
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