Calumet Township is one of 29

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. As of the 2010 census, its population was 20,777.

Geography

According to the

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, Calumet Township covers an area of ; of this, , or 94.21 percent, is land and , or 5.79 percent, is water.

Cities, towns, villages

* Blue Island (eastern half) * Calumet Park *

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(small part of Riverdale neighborhood) * Riverdale (northern half)

Adjacent townships

* Thornton Township (southeast) * Bremen Township (southwest) * Worth Township (west)

Cemeteries

The township contains Cedar Park Cemetery.

Major highways

Interstate 57 Interstate 57 (I-57) is a north–south Interstate Highway in Missouri and Illinois that parallels the old Illinois Central Railroad for much of its route. It runs from Sikeston, Missouri, at I-55 to Chicago, Illinois, at I-94. I-57 ess ...

Illinois Route 1 Illinois Route 1 (IL 1) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Illinois. Running parallel to the Indiana border, the highway starts at the free ferry crossing to Kentucky at Cave-in-Rock on the Ohio River and runs north to the south sid ...

Rivers

Little Calumet River The Calumet River is a system of heavily industrialized rivers and canals in the region between the south side of Chicago, Illinois, and the city of Gary, Indiana. Historically, the Little Calumet River and the Grand Calumet River were one, the ...

Landmarks

* Calumet Woods (

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) * Whistler Preserve (Cook County Forest Preserves)

Demographics

Political districts

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* State House District 27 * State House District 28 * State House District 30 * State Senate District 14 * State Senate District 15

References

;Bibliography *
United States Census Bureau 2007 TIGER/Line Shapefiles

United States National Atlas
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External links

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