Mount Greenwood, Chicago
| Mount Greenwood | |
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| Community area | |
| Community Area 74 - Mount Greenwood | |
 Location within the city of Chicago |
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| Coordinates: 41°42.0′N 87°42.6′W / 41.7000°N 87.7100°WCoordinates: 41°42.0′N 87°42.6′W / 41.7000°N 87.7100°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Illinois |
| County | Cook |
| City | Chicago |
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| Area | |
| • Total | 2.73 sq mi (7.07 km2) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 19,093 |
| • Density | 7,000/sq mi (2,700/km2) |
| Demographics (2010) | |
| • White | 85.96% |
| • Black | 5.17% |
| • Hispanic | 7.24% |
| • Asian | 0.66% |
| • Other | 0.97% |
| Time zone | CST (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP Codes | part of 60655 |
| Median income | $80,505 |
| Source: U.S. Census, Record Information Services | |
Mount Greenwood is one of Chicago's 77 community areas. It is a predominantly Irish-Catholic neighborhood on the South Side of the city. It borders the neighborhoods of Beverly and Morgan Park to the east, the suburb of Evergreen Park to the north, the suburb of Oak Lawn to the west, and the suburbs of Merrionette Park and Alsip to the south. Because of the presence of the cemeteries along the eastern edge of the neighborhood, the area was fictitiously said to have been known as "Seven Holy Tombs" before it was known as Mount Greenwood by author and playwright, John R. Powers in his fictionalized trilogy about growing up there. Mount Greenwood is about 14 miles (23 km) southwest of the Loop.
The origins of Mount Greenwood began in 1879 when the surveyor George Washington Waite (b.1839) platted an eighty-acre land grant that he had received from the federal government. Mount Greenwood Cemetery was established in that year on what had between 1854 and 1869 been the farm of Benjamin Kaylor. The cemetery was developed by businessmen from Blue Island who needed a place to relocate the remains of individuals who had previously been buried in that community's municipal cemetery, which the village board had deemed a public nuisance after its growth had become unmanageable. The cemetery is the final resting-place of Robert Haslam (1840-1912), who as a twenty-year-old immigrant from England became one of the most celebrated riders of the Pony Express mail service that operated from 1860-1861. Although completely surrounded by the City of Chicago, Mount Greenwood Cemetery is not part of Chicago. It is in unincorporated Cook County, Illinois. Mount Greenwood was incorporated as a village in 1907 and annexed to Chicago on February 22, 1927.
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