Riverdale, Illinois

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Riverdale, Illinois
Village
Pacesetter Gardens Historic District
Pacesetter Gardens Historic District
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Nickname(s): 
The Dale
Motto(s): 
"A Village with a Vision"
Location of Riverdale in Cook County, Illinois.
Location of Riverdale in Cook County, Illinois.
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Coordinates: 41°38′26″N 87°37′50″W / 41.64056°N 87.63056°W / 41.64056; -87.63056Coordinates: 41°38′26″N 87°37′50″W / 41.64056°N 87.63056°W / 41.64056; -87.63056
CountryTemplate:US
StateIllinois
CountyCook
TownshipsThornton, Calumet
Government
 • MayorLawrence Jackson
Area
[1]
 • TotalTemplate:Infobox settlement/areadisp
 • LandTemplate:Infobox settlement/areadisp
 • WaterTemplate:Infobox settlement/areadisp  4.80%
Population
 (2020)
 • Total10,663
 • DensityTemplate:Infobox settlement/densdisp
Demonym(s)Riverdalian
Standard of living (2007-11)
 • Per capita income$16,463
 • Median home value$101,300
Time zoneCentral Standard Time
 • Summer (DST)Central Daylight Time
ZIP code(s)
60827
Area code(s)708
Geocode64278
FIPS code17-64278
Websitewww.villageofriverdale.net

Riverdale is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 10,663 at the 2020 census.[2] The village shares its name with the bordering Riverdale neighborhood in Chicago.

History

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Image of the Charles Pope Beet Sugar Works on the Calumet River in Riverdale (1910)

The Village of Riverdale was incorporated in 1893.[3] In 1904 the Englishman and former Chicago glucose manufacturer Charles Pope (1843–1922) [4] purchased property in Riverdale at what is today the west side of Indiana Avenue [5] with the intention of establishing a beet sugar factory. The property was previously occupied by The Riverdale Distillery, which had been established by the Union Copper Distilling Company of Chicago in 1871 to manufacture fermentum yeast. Located on the south bank of the Little Calumet river with access to the Illinois Central tracks, the beet sugar factory opened in 1905 with a capacity of 350 tons of beet sugar per day, a production rate that was eventually increased to 500 tons per day.[6] The factory was sold by Pope's heirs in 1922 to the Midwest Sugar Refining Company, who added sugar to the product line that was produced from cane supplied from Cuba and Puerto Rico.[7] and who the following year began a program that was intended "to expand this enterprise far beyond its present capacity so as to make the company one of the leading producers and refiners of sugar in the Middle West."[8] In 1947 this enterprise was replaced by The Chromium Mining and Smelting Corporation.[9]

Geography

Riverdale is located at 41°38′26″N 87°37′50″W / 41.64056°N 87.63056°W / 41.64056; -87.63056 (41.640684, -87.630645).[10] According to the 2010 census, Riverdale has a total area of 3.745 square miles (9.70 km2), of which 3.57 square miles (9.25 km2) (or 95.33%) is land and 0.175 square miles (0.45 km2) (or 4.67%) is water.[11]

Surrounding areas

Demographics

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Racial and ethnic composition

Riverdale village, Illinois – Racial and ethnic composition
Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.
Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop 1980[12] Pop 1990[13] Pop 2000[14] Pop 2010[15] Pop 2020[16] % 1980 % 1990 % 2000 % 2010 % 2020
White alone (NH) 12,811 7,846 1,539 511 301 96.81% 57.53% 10.22% 3.77% 2.82%
Black or African American alone (NH) 36 5,424 12,942 12,610 9,791 0.27% 39.77% 85.96% 93.07% 91.82%
Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH) 7 [17] 24 24 24 11 0.05% 0.18% 0.16% 0.18% 0.10%
Asian alone (NH) 37 [18] 9 29 13 13 0.28% 0.07% 0.19% 0.10% 0.12%
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander alone (NH) 1 [19] [20] 0 0 7 0.01% 0.00% 0.00% 0.07%
Other race alone (NH) 20 [21] 0 18 11 40 0.15% 0.00% 0.12% 0.08% 0.38%
Mixed race or Multiracial (NH) x [22] x [23] 137 143 160 x x 0.91% 1.06% 1.50%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 321 334 366 237 340 2.43% 2.45% 2.43% 1.75% 3.19%
Total 13,233 13,637 15,055 13,549 10,663 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%

2020 census

As of the 2020 census, Riverdale had a population of 10,663.[24][25] The median age was 37.3 years. 24.8% of residents were under the age of 18 and 12.4% of residents were 65 years of age or older. For every 100 females there were 82.6 males, and for every 100 females age 18 and over there were 76.5 males age 18 and over.[24]

100.0% of residents lived in urban areas, while 0.0% lived in rural areas.[26]

There were 4,187 households in Riverdale, and 2,726 families resided in the village.[24][27] Of all households, 33.2% had children under the age of 18 living in them, 20.2% were married-couple households, 21.4% were households with a male householder and no spouse or partner present, and 51.3% were households with a female householder and no spouse or partner present. About 32.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.[24]

There were 5,087 housing units, of which 17.7% were vacant. The homeowner vacancy rate was 6.1% and the rental vacancy rate was 13.8%.[24] The population density was 2,843.47 inhabitants per square mile (1,097.87/km2), and housing units were at an average density of 1,356.53 per square mile (523.76/km2).[27]

Income and poverty

The median income for a household in the village was $38,355, and the median income for a family was $42,632. Males had a median income of $36,231 versus $30,861 for females. The per capita income for the village was $18,987. About 27.2% of families and 28.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 37.9% of those under age 18 and 17.0% of those age 65 or over.

Government

Riverdale is divided between two congressional districts. Most of the city is in Illinois's 2nd congressional district; the area west of Ashland Avenue and the area southwest of 141st and Halsted Streets are in the 1st district. The local government of Riverdale consists of six elected trustees, one elected village clerk, and one elected mayor. On April 9, 2013, incumbent mayor Deyon Dean was defeated by trustee Lawrence Jackson, who was sworn in as mayor of Riverdale on May 2, 2013.

Transportation

Riverdale is home to two stations on the Metra Electric District's main line; Ivanhoe station at 144th Street and Riverdale station at 137th Street.[34]

Pace provides bus service on multiple routes in the village connecting Riverdale to destinations across the Southland.[35]

Notable people

References

  1. ↑ "2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
  2. ↑ "Riverdale village, Illinois, Illinois profile". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 24, 2022.
  3. ↑ Bluestone, Daniel (May 15, 2005). "Nomination of Illinois SP Pacesetter Gardens Historic District (NAID: 28892665)". United States National Park Service. Retrieved June 13, 2023.
  4. ↑ "Charles Pope, Sugar Refiner, Passes Away". The Chicago Daily Tribune: 9. March 26, 1922.
  5. ↑ "Some Success with Sugar Beets". The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer. LIII (18): 283–284. October 31, 1914.
  6. ↑ Wilson, James (1905). U.S. Department of Agriculture – Report No. 80 – Progress of the Beet-Sugar Industry in The United States in 1904. New York: Government Printing Office. pp. 60–61.
  7. ↑ "New Refining Company ACQUIRES Pope Factory – Plant at Riverdale, Ill, Purchased by Midwest Refining Company from Charles Pope Heirs". Facts About Sugar – A Weekly Journal of the Sugar Industry. XV (20): 391. November 11, 1922.
  8. ↑ "General Manager McKinney Tells About The Future Plans Of The Company". The (Riverdale) Pointer. XVII (8): 1. November 11, 1922.
  9. ↑ Brennan, J.H., H.E. Dunn and C.M. Cosman (1961). HISTORY OF IRON AND STEELMAKING IN THE UNITED STATES - Publication in One Book of a Series of Historical Articles That Have Appeared in Journal of Metals, 1956-1961. New York: Metallurgical Society of AIME. p. 100.
  10. ↑ "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. February 12, 2011. Retrieved April 23, 2011.
  11. ↑ "G001 - Geographic Identifiers - 2010 Census Summary File 1". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on February 13, 2020. Retrieved December 25, 2015.
  12. ↑ "1980 Census of Population - General Population Characteristics - Illinois- Table 14 - Persons by Race and Table 16 (p. 18-28) - Total Persons and Spanish Origin Persons by Type of Spanish Origin and Race (p. 29-39)" (PDF). United States Census Bureau.
  13. ↑ "1990 Census of Population - General Population Characteristics - Illinois - Table 6 - Race and Hispanic Origin" (PDF). United States Census Bureau.
  14. ↑ "P004 Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2000: DEC Summary File 1 – Riverdale village, Illinois". United States Census Bureau.
  15. ↑ "P2 Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2010: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Riverdale village, Illinois". United States Census Bureau.
  16. ↑ "P2 Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Riverdale village, Illinois". United States Census Bureau.
  17. ↑ Compiliation of American Indian, Eskimo, Aleut categories
  18. ↑ Compiliation of Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Korean, Asian Indian, and Vietnamese categories. Other Asian groups would be included in the Some Other Race category
  19. ↑ Compiliation of Hawaiian, Guamanian, and Samoan categories. Other Pacific Islander groups would be included in the Some Other Race category
  20. ↑ Derived from extracting Pacific Islander population from Asian population
  21. ↑ Calculated as the difference between the total population and all other categories
  22. ↑ Not an option in the 1980 Census
  23. ↑ Not an option in the 1990 Census
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 24.3 24.4 "2020 Decennial Census Demographic Profile (DP1)". United States Census Bureau. 2021. Retrieved April 27, 2026.
  25. ↑ "2020 Decennial Census Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171)". United States Census Bureau. 2021. Retrieved April 27, 2026.
  26. ↑ "2020 Decennial Census Demographic and Housing Characteristics (DHC)". United States Census Bureau. 2023. Retrieved April 27, 2026.
  27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 "Explore Census Data". data.census.gov. Retrieved June 28, 2022.
  28. ↑ "Old Line Parties Score Wins in Dolton-Riverdale". Suburbanite Economist. April 27, 1949 – via Newspapers.com.
  29. ↑ Illinois Blue Book (1969-1970). State of Illinois. 1967. p. 201.
  30. ↑ "Frank J, Heenan, 87". The Chicago Tribune. September 2, 2023.
  31. ↑ "Election 1989". The Chicago Tribune. April 6, 1989 – via Newspapers.com.
  32. ↑ 32.0 32.1 Smallwood, Lola (October 19, 2000). "Change of guard ahead for Riverdale". The Chicago Tribune – via Newspapers.com.
  33. ↑ 33.0 33.1 Elwood, Patrick (November 20, 2025). "Riverdale mayor removed from office after felony conviction". WGN-TV.
  34. ↑ Lane, Laura (January 19, 2014). "Map: South Shore Line, Metra Electric Line". The Times of Northwest Indiana. Archived from the original on June 11, 2020. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
  35. ↑ "RTA System Map" (PDF). Retrieved February 1, 2024.
  36. ↑ Sir Charles' Biography - Sir Charles Hammer Retrieved February 19, 2017.
  37. ↑ 'Illinois Blue Book 1967-1968,' Biographical Sketch of Marjorie Pebworth, pg. 203
  38. ↑ Doneski, Ellen L., ed. (April 21, 2009). "Nominations to the Department of Transportation, The Department of Commerce, and the Executive Office of the President" (PDF). Hearing before the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Publishing Office. pp. 20–26.

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