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University Park

Illinois · IL
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Village in Illinois, United States
1967Established
7,145Population
10.8 sq miArea
784 ftElevation

University Park is a village in Will County with a small portion in Cook County in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is a south suburb of Chicago. The village is one of the region's few planned communities; it was developed in the 1960s as Wood Hill, then Park Forest South, and finally University Park. Governors State University was established in the village in 1969. The village population was 7,145 at the 2020 census.

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