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

Hazel Crest has a population of 13918. 44% of Hazel Crest’s inhabitants are Male, and 56 are female. 28.7% of Hazel Crest is married and 58.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $121,326, and the average rent is $1,455. Household median income in Hazel Crest is $55,010, and the individual median income is $33,500. Hazel Crest’s Ethnic is the following: Black(88.8%), White(8.1%), Hispanic(3.9%), Multiple(1.7%), Native(0.5%), Other(0.5%), Asian(0.3%).


Hazel Crest was first settled in 1870 in a farming community known as South Harvey. An enterprising newspaper editor named William McClintock moved here from Ohio in 1890, buying 80 acres (320,000 m2) from farmer Fred Puhrman. McClintock built a depot for a local milk train and subsequently opened transportation opportunities to Chicago and beyond.


The depot also served as the area's first real estate office, public meeting place, Sunday school, day school, and post office. In 1900, the name was changed to Hazel Crest to reflect the large numbers of hazelnut bushes that grew on a rise of land just south of town. At the time, the southern border was 175th Street and the western edge of the village was Kedzie Avenue. Hazel Crest was incorporated in 1912.


Many of the families of the early residents still live in the village. Over the years, significant developments have occurred because groups of residents joined together for common goals. Examples of this spirit range from the construction of the Community Church in 1894 to the 1984 adaptation of an elementary school building which has now become the Martin J.


Kauchak Municipal Center, named for President Kauchak who served the village for twenty years (1973-1993).


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