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Melrose Park, Illinois

Melrose Park is in Cook County.

About Melrose Park, Illinois

A working-class western suburb of Chicago with a strong industrial and manufacturing heritage and a large Hispanic majority population. The village is known for its long-running Italian-American Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

History of Melrose Park

• Long a manufacturing hub next to the Proviso freight yards, historically home to major companies including Zenith, Alberto-Culver, and International Harvester.

Landmarks and Places in Melrose Park

• Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Diocesan shrine and parish dating to 1895, home of the annual Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel held each July.
• Stern Pinball, Inc.. Pinball machine manufacturer headquartered in the village.
• Melrose Park Metra station. Commuter rail stop on the Union Pacific West Line with service to Chicago.
• Eisenhower Park. Village of Melrose Park recreation site.
• Kiddieland Amusement Park sign. Sign from the former Kiddieland Amusement Park (1929-2010) relocated to the Melrose Park Public Library.

Local reference: en.wikipedia.org, olmcparish.org, www.melrosepark.org

More About Melrose Park

Residents voted in 1882 to form their own municipality, first called Melrose, and Park was added to the name in 1893.

The first Italian-American families arrived in 1888.

The village lies in Leyden and Proviso townships and covers about 4.35 square miles.

Gottlieb Memorial Hospital is in Melrose Park.

The former Navistar building began as a Buick plant that made aircraft engines during World War II.

Trains from the Metra station run east to Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago and west to Elburn.

Walther Christian Academy and Lincoln College of Technology are in the village.

Source: en.wikipedia.org