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According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total
area of 6.5 square miles (16.9 km²), of which, 6.4 square miles
(16.5 km²) of it is land and 0.2 square miles (0.4 km²) of
it (2.45%) is water.
Alsip is bordered to the west by Worth, Illinois.
To the south is Crestwood. Oak Lawn lies to the north. Merrionette Park,
Blue Island, and Robbins lie to the east (north-south, respectively).
The Mount Greenwood neighborhood of Chicago lies to the north and east.[4]
Most of the town lies to the north of the Cal-Sag Channel. In conjunction
with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources and the Water Reclamation
District of Chicago, the Village operates a boat launch on the canal,
permitting inland access to Lake Michigan[5]
Alsip is also home to two
cemeteries, Burr Oak and Restvale, both of which are predominantly African-American.
While there are many famous people buried there, Restvale is particularly
known as the final resting place of several notable Blues Musicians,
perhaps the most notable being Muddy Waters. Burr Oak's most notable
burial may be Emmett Till, whose murder in Mississippi at age 14 in 1955
was an important moment in the American Civil Rights Movement. In 2004,
the cemetery was covered in the national media when the murder investigation
was reopened, and Till's body was exhumed[6] |
