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.
DuPage County 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]
DuPage County 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] |