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Alsip, IL - History


We would like to provide the residents of  Alsip  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Alsip Home page. The Alsip Home page provides as much information as possible on Alsip. Knowing Alsip’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Alsip’s Home page, you will also find Alsip’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Alsip has a population of 18843. 47.6% of Alsip’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.4 are female. 44.8% of Alsip is married and 62.7% own their own home. The Average Home price is $168,933, and the average rent is $977. Household median income in Alsip is $58,768, and the individual median income is $34,696. Alsip’s Ethnic is the following: White(64.2%), Black(23.1%), Hispanic(22.6%), Other(5.9%), Multiple(4.5%), Asian(2%), Native(0.3%).


Alsip is located at 41°40′14″N 87°43′56″W (41.670433, -87.732199).According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Alsip has a total area of 6.63 square miles (17.17 km2), of which 6.53 square miles (16.91 km2) (or 98.49%) is land and 0.10 square miles (0.26 km2) (or 1.51%) is water.Alsip is bordered to the west by the villages of Worth and Palos Heights.


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.Most of the town lies to the north of the Cal-Sag Channel. However, Chippewa Ridge subdivision, which was built upon the former Alsip Nursery, lies southwest of the Cal-Sag.


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.The Alsip area is home to two predominantly African-American cemeteries, Burr Oak and Restvale cemeteries, which are the resting places of many Chicago blues musicians (including Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon and Dinah Washington), athletes (Jimmie Crutchfield), and other celebrities.


Emmett Till, whose murder in Mississippi at age 14 in 1955 was an important moment in the Civil Rights Movement, is buried at Burr Oak. In 2004, that cemetery was covered in the national media when the murder investigation was re-opened, and Till's body was exhumed.Six years later, on July 9, 2010, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart alleged that four workers at Burr Oak cemetery dug up more than 200 graves, dumped the bodies into unmarked mass graves, and resold the plots to unsuspecting members of the public.


The three men and one woman were charged and convicted with one count each of dismembering a human body.


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