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Skokie

About Skokie

Population

65,074 in city
9,804,845 in metro

Size

26 km² (10 mi²)

Altitude

185.015849793 m

A north suburb of Chicago, the Village of Skokie is located between Evanston and the forest preserves along the North Branch of the Chicago River. Its downtown is on Oakton Street near the southwest corner, but the main commercial area is Old Orchard Mall on the north side, one of the Chicago area's busiest shopping centers. The original settlement was predominantly German and Luxembourgeois, and was incorporated as Niles Centre in 1888. In 1940 the name was changed to Skokie to avoid confusion with neighboring Niles; the name comes from the Potawatomie Indian word for "big swamp" and had already been used for the series of lagoons in the forest preserves to the north. In 1962 Skokie passed Oak Park in population to become the largest village in America, and subsequently billed itself as the "World's Largest Village".

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No. of Buildings

No.	Current status
60	All Buildings
56	existing
1	under construction
1	planned
1	unbuilt
1	demolished

Tallest Buildings

#	Building	Height	Year
1	Optima Old Orchard Woods	196 ft	2008
2	Bell + Howell Building	159 ft	1984
3	DoubleTree Northshore	-	1973
4	Concourse Plaza South	-	1972
5	Concourse Plaza North	-	1972

Building types

No.	Type
52	low-rise building
7	high-rise building
1	open-air structure

Other buildings

No.	Type
1	Famous buildings
1	Buildings with construction images