Midlothian, Illinois
| Midlothian, Illinois | |
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| Village | |
| Village of Midlothian | |
 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: 41°37′35″N 87°43′17″W / 41.62639°N 87.72139°WCoordinates: 41°37′35″N 87°43′17″W / 41.62639°N 87.72139°W | |
| Country |
 United States
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| State | Illinois |
| County | Cook |
| Township | Bremen |
| Incorporated | March 17, 1927 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Mayor/Board of Trustees |
| • President or Mayor | Sharon Rybak (Ind.) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2.82 sq mi (7.3 km2) |
| • Land | 2.82 sq mi (7.3 km2) |
| • Water | 0.00 sq mi (0.0 km2) 0% |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 14,819 |
| • Density | 5,255.0/sq mi (2,029.0/km2) |
| Up 3.59% from 2000 | |
| Standard of living (2007-11) | |
| • Per capita income | $22,945 |
| • Median home value | $100,000 |
| ZIP code(s) | 60445 |
| Area code(s) | 708 |
| Geocode | 48892 |
| Website | villageofmidlothian |
Midlothian (/mɪdˈloʊθiən/) is a village in Cook County in the state of Illinois, United States. It is a southwestern suburb of Chicago.
Like many southwest suburbs of Chicago in the 1800s and early 1900s, the area now known as the Village of Midlothian consisted of a few area farmers being surrounded by large and small endeavors alike as the industrial age began its exponential expansion process in the Bremen Township in Cook County, Illinois community.
By 1854, the sprawling landscape comprising the township of Bremen had a trail of railroad track carrying both passengers and commodities between Chicago and Joliet on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad.
It had been a somewhat brutal battle for the Illinois Central Railroad over the decades, with Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln working hard to establish the presence of the Illinois Central Railroad on a State level until Douglas moved to the federal level. By 1850, Douglas was busy working on federally mandated development of transportation plans into law at a federal level for the benefit of the Illinois Central Railroad.
According to the 1976 Bremen High School Bicentennial Book, there is evidence of existing plans to run the Illinois Central Railroad through the property that would eventually become the location of Bremen High School in 1953.
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