Place:Oak Lawn, Cook, Illinois, United States

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Name
Oak Lawn
Type
Village
Coordinates
41.715°N 87.753°W
Located in
Cook, Illinois, United States

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Oak Lawn is a village in Cook County, Illinois. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 55,245.

Oak Lawn is a suburb of the city of Chicago, located southwest of the city. It shares borders with the city in two areas, but is surrounded mostly by other suburbs independent of Chicago.

The village government is comprised of the Mayor and six Village Trustees. The six Trustees represent the six districts within the Village and are elected to four-year terms by the voters in each of their respective districts. The current mayor of Oak Lawn is Dave Heilmann, elected in 2005 with the Unity Party, which he led. He defeated members of the Village Vision Party, which held a majority on the village board for nearly 40 years. Heilmann is an Oak Lawn native who attended St. Linus Elementary School in Oak Lawn and Brother Rice High School in Chicago.

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