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Palos Heights, Illinois
Palos Heights is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is a southwest suburb of Chicago. Per the 2020 census, the population was 12,068.
Palos Heights was incorporated on April 11, 1959, on its fourth attempt at the ballot with the results 850 to 684. It officially became a city on April 16, 1959. Shortly thereafter, Z. Erol Smith was elected its first mayor and was re-elected three times, serving until 1973. The city’s name derives from the surrounding Palos Township, which was renamed in 1850—on the recommendation of early postmaster Melanchan A. Powell—after Palos de la Frontera, Spain.
In 1965, a group of scholars met in Palos Heights to discuss the need for a contemporary translation of the Bible. The necessity of the project was agreed upon, and shortly thereafter, the New International Version (NIV) was initiated in Palos Heights.
Beginning in the late 1980s under Mayor Eugene Simpson, the city redeveloped land along the Cal-Sag Channel into what became Lake Katherine; a nonprofit nature center was formalized in 2005 to manage the site.
In 2000, plans by the Al Salam Mosque Foundation to purchase a former church building in Palos Heights drew regional and national attention after the city council voted to offer the group money to abandon the sale; Mayor Dean Koldenhoven vetoed the payout. The foundation sued the city, and in May 2005 a federal jury found Palos Heights did not violate the group’s civil rights. Koldenhoven received a 2002 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for his stance during the dispute.
In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, Cook County prosecutors filed a hate-crime case after a 39-year-old man attacked a gas-station worker in Palos Heights; the defendant pleaded guilty to aggravated battery, unlawful use of a weapon, and a hate crime.
According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Palos Heights has a total area of 3.87 square miles (10.02 km2), of which 3.77 square miles (9.76 km2) (or 97.47%) is land and 0.10 square miles (0.26 km2) (or 2.53%) is water.
Palos Heights has the following neighborhoods, each with distinct characteristics:
Palos Heights, Illinois
Palos Heights is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is a southwest suburb of Chicago. Per the 2020 census, the population was 12,068.
Palos Heights was incorporated on April 11, 1959, on its fourth attempt at the ballot with the results 850 to 684. It officially became a city on April 16, 1959. Shortly thereafter, Z. Erol Smith was elected its first mayor and was re-elected three times, serving until 1973. The city’s name derives from the surrounding Palos Township, which was renamed in 1850—on the recommendation of early postmaster Melanchan A. Powell—after Palos de la Frontera, Spain.
In 1965, a group of scholars met in Palos Heights to discuss the need for a contemporary translation of the Bible. The necessity of the project was agreed upon, and shortly thereafter, the New International Version (NIV) was initiated in Palos Heights.
Beginning in the late 1980s under Mayor Eugene Simpson, the city redeveloped land along the Cal-Sag Channel into what became Lake Katherine; a nonprofit nature center was formalized in 2005 to manage the site.
In 2000, plans by the Al Salam Mosque Foundation to purchase a former church building in Palos Heights drew regional and national attention after the city council voted to offer the group money to abandon the sale; Mayor Dean Koldenhoven vetoed the payout. The foundation sued the city, and in May 2005 a federal jury found Palos Heights did not violate the group’s civil rights. Koldenhoven received a 2002 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for his stance during the dispute.
In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, Cook County prosecutors filed a hate-crime case after a 39-year-old man attacked a gas-station worker in Palos Heights; the defendant pleaded guilty to aggravated battery, unlawful use of a weapon, and a hate crime.
According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Palos Heights has a total area of 3.87 square miles (10.02 km2), of which 3.77 square miles (9.76 km2) (or 97.47%) is land and 0.10 square miles (0.26 km2) (or 2.53%) is water.
Palos Heights has the following neighborhoods, each with distinct characteristics:
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