| Skokie (formerly
Niles Center) is a village in Cook County, Illinois,
United States. It is a Chicago suburb, on the northwest
border of the city, that, per the 2000 census, had a
population of 63,348.
The Village of Skokie, Illinois,
U.S., is at co-ordinates 42°2′13″N 87°44′24″W
/ 42.03694, -87.74 (42.037030, -87.740070) [2];
per the United States Census Bureau, its total area
is 10.0 square miles (26.0 km²), all land. The
village is bordered by Evanston, Chicago, Lincolnwood,
Niles, Morton Grove, Glenview, and Wilmette.
The village's street circulation
is a standard street-grid pattern, with major east-west
thoroughfare every half-mile: Old Orchard Road, Golf
Road, Church Street, Dempster Street, Main Street, Oakton
Street, Howard Street, and Touhy Avenue. The major north-south
thoroughfares are Skokie Boulevard, Crawford Avenue,
and McCormick Boulevard; the major diagonal streets
are Lincoln Avenue, Niles Center Road, and Gross Point
Road.
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