Blue Island
A city in Cook County, Illinois — population 22,616 as of 2020.
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Latino community celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month at Levy Center
People of all ages filled the gym at the Levy Senior Center on Sunday afternoon for a Hispanic Heritage Month celebration hosted by Latinos en Evanston Northshore, a nonprofit that aims to create a thriving local Latino community where all families and older adults are connected.…
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Read all about it! Northlight’s ‘The Front Page’ is a marvelous opener for new theater
Northlight Theatre is presenting its inaugural production of The Front Page at its new Evanston location through October 25, featuring a cast of local actors in a meticulously rendered 1920s newsroom setting. Read all about it! Northlight’s ‘The Front Page’ is a marvelous opener…
Creatives & Arts
McGaw YMCA offering free learn-to-swim lessons for children ages 3 to 10 in October
The McGaw YMCA in Evanston is offering a free, five-day learn-to-swim program for children ages 3 to 10. It will run Monday, Oct. 26, through Friday, Oct. 30. This program is designed specifically for beginner swimmers and for families who may not otherwise have access to swim…
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Evanston, Ill.’s Black history archive takes on a new fight over reparations
The Shorefront Legacy Center, a small archive in a church basement in Evanston, Ill., collects papers and objects that tell the history of the city's Black community.
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September 21Evanston, Ill.’s Black history archive takes on a new fight over reparations
The Shorefront Legacy Center, a small archive in a church basement in Evanston, Ill., collects papers and objects that tell the history of the city's Black community.
Creatives & Arts
Lula B. Sherman Church celebrates Hispanic heritage with Costa Rican Consulate
“God speaks with an accent” was the main topic of Sunday’s sermon at Evanston’s Lula B. Sherman United Methodist Church. “In Costa Rica, a law on the books in 1934 forbade Black workers from crossing the Pacific side of their own country, and as recently as 2005, the government…
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See & do
- Bacchus 2601
- Blue Island Bark Park
- Blue Island Historical Society
- Blue Island Public Library
- Burr Oak Bowl
Eat, drink & stay
- Bad Axe Bar B Que
- Blue Island Beer Company
- City Limits Kitchen and Bar
- Baskin-Robbins
- Cuzins Blue Island
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Blue Island by the numbers
- Area
- 4.07 sq mi (10.54 km²), 0.09 sq mi water
- Median age
- 38.1
- Households
- 8,464
- Persons per household
- 2.6
- Median household income
- $59,489
- Median house value
- $178,700
- Office
- FINANCE DIRECTOR
- Address
- 13051 GREENWOOD AVE, BLUE ISLAND, IL 60406