Lincolnwood, Illinois
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Lincolnwood Tessville |
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| Village | |
| Village of Lincolnwood | |
 Location in Cook County and the state of Illinois. |
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.svg) Location of Illinois in the United States |
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| Coordinates: 42°0′19″N 87°44′3″W / 42.00528°N 87.73417°WCoordinates: 42°0′19″N 87°44′3″W / 42.00528°N 87.73417°W | |
| Country |
 United States
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| State | Illinois |
| County | Cook |
| Township | Niles |
| Incorporated | 1922 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Council-manager |
| • Mayor | Gerald Turry |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2.69 sq mi (7.0 km2) |
| • Land | 2.69 sq mi (7.0 km2) |
| • Water | 0.00 sq mi (0.0 km2) 0% |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 12,590 |
| • Density | 4,680.3/sq mi (1,807.1/km2) |
| Up 1.9% from 2000 | |
| Standard of living (2007-11) | |
| • Per capita income | $42,544 |
| • Median home value | $444,100 |
| ZIP code(s) | 60712-1017 |
| Area code(s) | Area Codes 224/847 |
| Geocode | 43744 |
| Website | www |
Lincolnwood (formerly Tessville) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 12,590 at the 2010 census.
Lincolnwood is located at 42°0′19″N 87°44′3″W / 42.00528°N 87.73417°W (42.005331, -87.734283).
According to the 2010 census, Lincolnwood has a total area of 2.69 square miles (6.97 km2), all land. The North Shore Channel lies on its eastern border.
The history of Lincolnwood is described by the Encyclopedia of Chicago as follows:
Cook County, 10 miles (16 km) NW of the Loop. Lincolnwood is an ethnically diverse, two-and-a-half-square-mile suburb. Potawatomi originally settled the wooded area, but vacated the land after the Indian Boundary Treaty of 1816. Rural development proceeded slowly on treacherous plank roads along present-day Milwaukee and Lincoln Avenues. Johann Tess, for whom the village was originally named, and his family came from Germany in 1856, purchasing 30 acres (120,000 m2) of barren land in the area. Population slowly increased, and the first commercial establishment, the Halfway House Saloon, was established in 1873.
The agrarian population grew after the establishment of a Chicago & North Western Railway station in nearby Skokie in 1891 and the completion of the North Shore Channel in 1909, which made the easily flooded prairie land manageable. More saloons and taverns soon appeared, specifically along Crawford and Lincoln Avenues. Because only organized municipalities could grant liquor licenses, 359 residents incorporated in 1911 and named the village Tessville. Tessville annexed land throughout the 1920s, finally stretching to Central Avenue on the west and Kedzie Avenue on the east. During Prohibition, Tessville became a haven for speakeasies and gambling facilities.
Tessville was long reputed for drinking and gambling until the 1931 election of its longest-serving mayor, Henry A. Proesel, a grandson of George Proesel, one of the original American settlers. In 1932, Lincoln Avenue, formerly a plank toll road, became a state highway. Proesel then worked with the federal government's Public Works Administration and hired the community's entire unemployed workforce to plant 10,000 elm trees on the village streets. Most important, the community passed a liquor license law (1934) that limited the number of licenses allowable within the city limits and became a model ordinance for other communities. Proesel finally changed Tessville's image when he renamed the village Lincolnwood in 1936.
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