About RICHTON PARK, il
Richton Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 12,533 at the 2000 census. The village sits astride the Sauk Trail, a modern highway that follows the course of a Native American transportation route that ran from Rock Island on the Mississippi River across Illinois and Indiana to Detroit.
The geography of contemporary Richton Park bears little resemblance to the depot village that was platted on the mid-nineteenth-century prairie. The Sauk Trail is a commercial strip of mostly small businesses surrounded by housing subdivisions. Although the parking lot of the up-to-date Metra station creates a central gathering place of sorts for commuters, nearly 5,000 of the 6,000 village commuters travel by automobile. They spend an average of 80 minutes in their cars each day getting to and from work, with the recently constructed nearby interchange on Interstate 57 providing ready, if at times somewhat congested, access to Chicago.
The residents of Richton Park are, on average, slightly wealthier than those living in the city of Chicago and Cook County as a whole. There are a substantial number of apartments in the village and one-third of the 4,500 households are made up of renters. But the majority of the village's residents live in their own single-family homes, which approach the median value for Chicago's south suburbs. Like many other south suburbs, Richton Park has attracted much new housing construction in recent years, and many of the newest houses are worth much more than the village's older, more modest homes.
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