Get in
Skokie is accessible by the CTA Yellow Line (the Skokie Swift) and the Edens Expwy (I-94). If you take the "Swift" to Skokie, check out the historic old Northshore Line train station adjacent to the Swift terminal.
Get around
PACE buses run through Skokie.
See
Do
Buy
Eat
There are restaurants galore! Just travel along Dempster Street.
Skokie (formerly Niles Center) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is a suburb of Chicago, located on the northwest border of Chicago. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 63,348.
Geography
Skokie is located at (42.037030, -87.740070).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 26.0 km² (10.0 mi²), all land.
Skokie is bordered by Evanston, Chicago, Lincolnwood, Niles, Morton Grove, Glenview and Wilmette.
Skokie has a standard grid street pattern with major east-west streets every half a mile. Major east-west streets are Old Orchard Road, Golf Road, Church Street, Dempster Street, Main Street, Oakton Street, Howard Street, and Touhy Avenue. The major north-south streets are Skokie Boulevard, Crawford Avenue, and McCormick Boulevard. Major diagonal streets are Lincoln Avenue, Niles Center Road, and Gross Point Road.
North-South streets continue street names and grid values of Chicago North-South streets, with the notable exceptions of Cicero Avenue, which is renamed Skokie Boulevard in Skokie, and Pulaski, which retains Chicago's original name of Crawford. East-West streets continue Evanston street names but assign the Chicago grid values to them, such that Evanston's Dempster, for example, is 8800 north in Skokie addresses. As a result, Skokie has two Greenleafs, one continuing west from Chicago's Rogers Park south of Touhy, the other continuing west from Evanston south of Dempster.
Transportation
The Yellow Line of the Chicago Transit Authority rapid transit system (formerly known as the "Skokie Swift"), has its terminus on Dempster Street in Skokie. Plans are underway to build a new station at Oakton Street, serving downtown Skokie and nearby neighborhoods. The station is slated to open in 2008.
The Village is also serviced by one CTA bus route, a number of PACE bus routes and a Greyhound Bus Terminal.
Interstate 94, also know as the Edens Expressway, runs through the western part of the village with interchanges at Touhy Avenue, Dempster Street, and Old Orchard Road.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 63,348 people, 23,223 households, and 17,045 families residing in the village. The population density was 2,436.1/km² (6,308.7/mi²). There were 23,702 housing units at an average density of 911.5/km² (2,360.4/mi²). The racial makeup of the village was 65.6% White, 4.51% African American, 0.17% Native American, 21.28% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 1.86% from other races, and 3.23% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5.71% of the population.
There were 23,223 households out of which 32.2%...
