Place:Lansing, Cook, Illinois, United States

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NameLansing
TypeVillage
Coordinates41.566°N 87.546°W
Located inCook, Illinois, United States
Also located inBloom, Cook, Illinois, United States    
Thornton (township), Cook, Illinois, United States    
Contained Places
Cemetery
First Reformed Church of Lansing Cemetery
Oak Ridge Cemetery
Inhabited place
Oakglen


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Lansing is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Lansing is a south suburb of Chicago. The population was 29,076 at the 2020 census.

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The first family to settle in Lansing was that of August Hildebrandt in 1843. Henry, George, and John Lansing settled the area in 1846, which was incorporated in 1893. Early settlement in the village was primarily by Dutch and German immigrants. Industrial development of the surrounding Calumet region attracted immigrants from Ireland and Eastern Europe to the village in the 20th century. These settlement patterns are reflected in Lansing's current demographics; according to the census the top five ancestries that were in Lansing in 2000 were German (17%), Polish (13%), Irish (13%), Dutch (11%), and Italian (7%). However, according to City-data.com 2016 estimates, these ancestries began to change in the mid-90s and early 2000s, when most residents were of African American ancestry (8,871), followed by Latinos (4,183), and Asian (Southeast Asian) (255).

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