Place:Olympia Fields, Cook, Illinois, United States

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NameOlympia Fields
TypeVillage
Coordinates41.518°N 87.693°W
Located inCook, Illinois, United States
Also located inBloom, Cook, Illinois, United States    
Rich, Cook, Illinois, United States    


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Olympia Fields is a village and a south suburb of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 4,988 at the 2010 census. The municipality grew up around the prestigious Olympia Fields Country Club, originally established in 1915.

Olympia Fields is noteworthy as one of the wealthiest and best educated, majority African-American communities in the United States. The village's zip code (60461) is one of three majority African American communities which rank among the top five percent in the U.S. for median household income and share of adults with college degrees, and Olympia Fields also has the highest black homeownership rate in the country among majority-black municipalities.

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