Maine Township, Cook County, Illinois
Maine Township is one of thirty townships in Cook County, Illinois. The population was 135,623 at the 2000 census. The township was founded in 1850.
Maine Township is located in Cook County, directly north and east of O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. Maine Township contains portions of the Chicago suburbs of Park Ridge, Morton Grove, Niles, Glenview, Des Plaines and Rosemont. The township also contains unincorporated sections which mostly uses a Des Plaines mailing address. Even though they have a Des Plaines (and in some cases a Niles mailing address) the addresses are based on the address numbering system based on Chicago's where the starting points are State and Madison. Interstate 294, also known as the Tri-State Tollway passes through Maine Township.
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Famous quotes containing the words maine, cook and/or illinois:
“Those Maine woods differ essentially from ours. There you are never reminded that the wilderness which you are threading is, after all, some villager’s familiar wood-lot, some widow’s thirds, from which her ancestors have sledded fuel for generations, minutely described in some old deed which is recorded, of which the owner has got a plan, too, and old bound-marks may be found every forty rods, if you will search.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I love it, I love it; and who shall dare
To chide me for loving that old arm-chair?”
—Eliza Cook (1818–1889)
“An Illinois woman has invented a portable house which can be carried about in a cart or expressed to the seashore. It has also folding furniture and a complete camping outfit.”
—Lydia Hoyt Farmer (1842–1903)