Melrose Park
It's been a typical week in Melrose Park with local businesses like Manchester Moving and Storage and Tone Products Inc serving the community. The weather trend for the week has been a chance of rain showers and thunderstorms with varying temperatures.
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![C&NWRR [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad], towerman R.W. Mayberry of Elmhurst, Ill., at the Proviso yard. He ope…](https://images.towntapestry.org/story/4194/0523abdf1dff7d56a3f4-l.jpg)
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C&NWRR [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad], towerman R.W. Mayberry of Elmhurst, Ill., at the Proviso yard. He ope…, 1939
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About Melrose Park
Village in Illinois, United StatesMelrose Park is a village in Leyden and Proviso Townships, Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is a suburb of Chicago. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 24,796. The suburb was the home of Kiddieland Amusement Park from 1929 until 2010 (it closed in September 2009 before it was demolished in 2010 and the sign of Kiddieland was relocated to the Melrose Park Public Library; a Costco warehouse store now stands in its place), the Shrine of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Stern Pinball, Inc., the Melrose Park Taste, and the now-defunct Maywood Park horse racing track. There is a Metra railroad station in Melrose Park with daily service to Chicago. Melrose Park is home to Gottlieb Memorial…
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Housing in Melrose Park
The typical Melrose Park home is worth about $324,000, up 6.1% in a year, 9% above the Illinois typical home.
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Safety in Melrose Park
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A grade needs all of the FBI's latest years (2023–2025). Melrose Park's police department reported only 2023 and 2024, so we don't grade it yet. The figures below are still real.
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